ONE OF THE MORE RECENT trends in Cervantes scholarship has been the exploration of the relationship between Cervantes's works, particularly Don Quixote, and those of contemporary culture. These explorations often follow a number of interrelated paths. The most common of these approaches are those that apply contemporary literary and cultural theory to Cervantes's works. (1) Another common approach explores the structural impact of Cervantine narrativity (and meta-narrativity) on later works. (2) Still others trace the conceptual intertextualities that exist between Cervantes and various later writers. (3) Finally, a more expansive approach explores those instances where contemporary culture--whether deliberately or not, whether self-consciously or not-rediscovers, reexamines, and/or reworks ideas and issues explored by Cervantes and his own contemporaries more than 400 years ago. (4) David Lynch's 2001 film Mulholland Drive is a cinematic narrative that lends itself extremely well to this last type of Cervantine analysis (and not just because this film--like Don Quixote, which is routinely said to be a literary work about literature--has been called a film about cinema [Lopate 47; Restuccia 71; and Shostak 6]). Born in Missoula, Montana, David Lynch is a member of a relatively small group of cutting-edge auteur filmmakers that includes Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, the Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Terry Gilliam, and Quentin Tarantino (among others). His first film, Eraserhead (1977), launched his meteoric career and has become something of a cult classic. His 1986 film Blue Velvet established what is the now widely recognized "Lynchian" theme of exposing the unsettling subterranean unease that exists just below the banal surface of contemporary suburban US culture, a theme he further explored in his 1990-1991 television series Twin Peaks. And while the commercial success of his Academy Award winning film The Elephant Man (1980) might suggest otherwise, Lynch is best known for making difficult and highly surrealistic films like Mulholland Drive.
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