Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Eraserhead have turned David Lynch into an American cult figure. This lively book is a uniquely comprehensive account of the only director to have a smash hit TV series in the same year as winning the Golden Palm at Cannes.

Michel Chion is the author of many books on the cinema, among them Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey (BFI Publishing 2001) and a monograph on Eyes Wide Shut, published in the BFI Modern Classics series.