Heterotopia on Screen- Blue Velvet (1986)

Barbara Creed A JOURNEY THROUGH BLUE VELVET

David Lynch's film Blue Velvet threatens to make interpretation redundant, so openly does it flaunt its Freudian themes and narrative. Its protagonist, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), is an Oedipal hero. His real father is struck down (by a heart attack); he sets out on a journey, encounters woman as enigma, woman as symbolic mother figure, and makes love to her; finally, he kills the murde...

Velvet worms

What is a velvet worm? Velvet worms are terrestrial, soft-bodied, many-legged carnivores. They form the phylum Onychophora (‘claw bearers’ — each of their many limbs terminates in paired claws). Velvet worms range in size from around 10 millimetres long to relative giants in excess of 20 centimetres, and known species have between 13 and 43 pairs of stubby limbs termed lobopods. Unlike arthropo...

Blue Velvet: the rise and decline of the new Czech right

This article analyses the origins, development and comparative success centre-right in the Czech Republic. It focuses principally on the the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) of Václav Klaus, but also discusses a number of smaller Christian Democratic, liberal and anti-communist groupings, insofar as they sought to provide right-wing alternatives to Klaus’s party. In comparative terms, the article s...

Periventricular heterotopia.

A 34-year-old epilepsy woman had first seizure when aged 14. Seizure patterns are mainly simple partial type, presented by a sense of air within chest wall rising to head or focal twitching of right hand. She also had generalized tonicclonic seizures before. In recent four years, she did not experience generalized seizure although simple partial seizures were noted average four to five times a ...

1986 , Volume , Issue Apr-1986