Lost Highway'

194 Studying Contemporary American Film demonstrated that there is something about the data of which cognitivist (or organie) explanations can give no adeąuate account’ (Carroll 1996b: 65). In this polemical statement, Carroll shifts the burden of proof to the psychoanalytic film theorists: they must explain why they use psychoanalysis as the starting point to theorize filmie phenomena.

2    See Bordwell (1985: 60-61) and Buckland (1995).

3    See Lynch and Gifford (1997: 11-12). At breakfast, Fred ąuestions Renee (who is reading a book), after they have looked at the first videotape. This scene has been deleted and replaced with the single shot of the red curtain.