Pavey, AJ;
(2014)
‘I’m there right now. Call me’: Unstable identities and irregular distances from Raymond Chandler to David Lynch.
Tropos
, 2
(1)
pp. 50-60.
10.14324/111.2057-2212.001.
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Abstract
David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997) and Raymond Chandler’s The High Window (1942) each contain scenes in which ambiguous distances and fluid identities disorientate the protagonists. The principle of incrimination that underpins modern criminal investigation demands a rationalisation of time, space and identity. But these three categories can be undermined, intentionally by individual action, or inherently by the technologies and systems of modernity itself. In both Chandler and Lynch, audio-visual media, particularly the telephone, demonstrate the fragility of any rigid, rationalised conception of distance and proximity, undermining the possibility of the stable knowledge by which the detective might solve the case, and the accused might defend himself against incrimination. The particularly disorientating dynamics of relation experienced by Lynch’s protagonists are also analogous to his subversion of cinematic narrative structure – in which the possibility of narrative closure constantly seems to both approach and recede.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘I’m there right now. Call me’: Unstable identities and irregular distances from Raymond Chandler to David Lynch |
| Open access status: | An open access publication |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.2057-2212.001 |
| Publisher version: | http://ojs.lib.ucl.ac.uk/index.php/tps |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Broome, AH; Nabugodi, M; Sreenan, N; Harvey, L; (2014). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Incrimination, Disorientation, Urban space, Crime narrative, Audio technology |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1468909 |
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