The American Studies Center of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology resumed the activity of the American Studies Book & Movie Club in the 2025–2026 academic year through a special event held on Monday, November 3, at 7:30 p.m., in room A11. The meeting began with the viewing of the famous film Mulholland Drive (2001) by the late American director David Lynch, a proposal by Fulbright lecturers Amelia Harrington and Jessica Reisch, who introduced the film, offering some interpretive pointers.
The event was attended by both undergraduate and master's students from the UVT Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, eager to re-encounter Lynch's cinematic universe or to discover it for the first time. After the viewing, discussions revolved around the first impressions given by the surrealistic aesthetics of the film, the characters as if detached from the strange world of dreams and the dreamlike atmosphere created by the unsettling music or the fragmented narrative.
Participants analyzed how Mulholland Drive reconfigure the world glamorous of Hollywood, exposing the tensions between illusion and reality, as well as the presence of the double as a recurring theme in Lynchian cinema. The conversations also made numerous references to other creations of the director, such as Lost Highway or the cult series Twin Peaks, to highlight the stylistic and thematic elements that connect these works.
