> I am looking for suggestions, assistance and any form of direction on the > pre-mentioned topics. I am soley interested in the dream sequences found in > the works of Maya Deren and David Lynch - in particular the two films "Lost > Highway" and "Meshes in the Afternoon". As opposed to the conventional > Freudian direction I am searching for something alternative. I am interested > in the semiotic deconstruction of dreams and the way they are constructed > and employed in the narrative space of films. I have been unable to locate and watch Meshes in the Afternoon of recent years, though I feel that I saw it many years (decades) ago. But someone last year sent me a cryptic message (it was while I was writing my book) suggesting that Deren's film had clearly influenced Hitchcock's Vertigo. Would anyone - Louie Rayner or anyone else - be able to comment on this, please? - Ken Mogg (author, 'The Alfred Hitchcock Story', the UK edition - n.b., I disown the cut and 'simplified' US edition). http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite