Book excerpt: "David Lynch's Intertextual Cinema expands the interpretive horizons of David Lynch's filmography by addressing the questions: How are Lynch's films as much a part of literary tradition as the cinematic tradition? How can his films be read as songs? This book positions his work as a compendium of popular literary and musical cultures, including David Foster Wallace and Nine Inch Nails who have successfully grafted Lynch's cinematic sensibility onto their own projects; a site through which these texts interact with other texts; and a channel through which the subconscious of American life finds its way into full and unaltered view"--