David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire Hardcover – March 15, 2013

"The richness of Nochimson’s writing, the thoroughness of her interpretation, and her assured stance in opposition to the canon of Lynch criticism to date all make David Lynch Swerves a must-read for anyone interested in the films of David Lynch. Or, for that matter, the state of film criticism in American culture. If criticism at its best is a form of revelation, then this is practically a new gospel." (House of SpeakEasy 2014-08-07)

"To grant Lynch agency and study him as Nochimson does—through his lens—is not to indulge in sloppy hagiography, but to know something of his remarkable vantage point on the mysteries of existence. . . . Nochimson is stretching herself beyond film studies into a realm where few film studies academics have dared to go. She is up front about the excitement and dangers of this approach, but she also makes an outstanding case that—with Lynch—such stretching beyond every conceivable boundary (be it academic or ontological!) is essential. . . . This book will likely be the standard for studying Lynch’s later films." (Joseph Kickasola, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Baylor University, author of The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image)

"Taken as a whole, this book is nothing less than a revelation of a new David Lynch. I want to say the true David Lynch, so convincing are the book’s claims, so well-substantiated and explained. I’ve studied all these films obsessively over the past ten years and have written extensively about two of them. But I never saw the profound meanings the book so powerfully discloses. The focus on the physics of Lynch is a true paradigm shift in our understanding of the director. Nothing will ever be the same in Lynch studies again." (Eric G. Wilson, Professor of English, Wake Forest University, author of The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr.)

"To grant Lynch agency and study him as Nochimson does—through his lens—is not to indulge in sloppy hagiography, but to know something of his remarkable vantage point on the mysteries of existence. . . . Nochimson is stretching herself beyond film studies into a realm where few film studies academics have dared to go. She is up front about the excitement and dangers of this approach, but she also makes an outstanding case that—with Lynch—such stretching beyond every conceivable boundary (be it academic or ontological!) is essential. . . . This book will likely be the standard for studying Lynch’s later films." (Joseph Kickasola, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Baylor University, author of The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image)

"Taken as a whole, this book is nothing less than a revelation of a new David Lynch. I want to say the true David Lynch, so convincing are the book’s claims, so well-substantiated and explained. I’ve studied all these films obsessively over the past ten years and have written extensively about two of them. But I never saw the profound meanings the book so powerfully discloses. The focus on the physics of Lynch is a true paradigm shift in our understanding of the director. Nothing will ever be the same in Lynch studies again." (Eric G. Wilson, Professor of English, Wake Forest University, author of The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr.)