Open Your Eyes Wider: Overexposure in Contemporary American Film and TV Series by Monica Michlin

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Can Squid Game Series Be Watched Through Social Darwinism? A Semiotic Review by Hasan Tutar

“…Social events are reflected as a string of signs in the language of the productions in question by forming thesubjects of cinema and TV productions. The language of expression in television creates a dream world,and the message is tried to be placed in the audience’s mind in the form of images. …”
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David Lynch’s Los Angeles: Control and Liberation through the Cinematic Image by Jakob Jurisch

“…Arguably, one of America’s greatest cinematic surrealists, David Lynch, boasts a filmography concerned with iconography, the nature of kitsch, and what dark underbellies such images veil. In Lynch’s famous TV series Twin Peaks (1990-2017), the kitsch aspect of a local small-town murder mystery is connected to a surreal and ungraspable larger world of primordial darkness and incomprehensible nightmares, where consciousness and unconsciousness constantly inform upon one another, one cannot exist without the other. …”
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