Pervert in the Pulpit

Filmmaker David Lynch''s work is viewed here as patriotic and Puritanical. This Lynch is an idealistic conservative on a reformer''s mission. Lynch promotes a return to the values inherent in a mythological America, but he indulges in a voyeuristic pleasure which he simultaneously condemns. Like Jeffrey peeking through the slats of Dorothy''s closet in Blue Velvet, the viewer of Lynch''s work i...