SNEVANJE FILMA ILI SNEVANJE IDENTITETA: SAN KAO INTERTEKSTUALNA I METATEKSTUALNA STRUKTURA U FILMU BULEVAR ZVEZDA DEJVIDA LINČA

The paper examines the dream phenomenon in David Lynch’s movie Mulholland Drive (2001), pri- marily by pointing out the ways in which the oneiric context of the identity of the main character Diane Selwyn reflects oneiricity as a narrative-stylistic and poetic process in the construction of Lynch’s film. The heroine's dream of identity is symbolically mediated by the film's structure, which is why it can be explained as a discourse in which the changed signs of her real identity are revealed. At the same time, considering that Lynch loads quotes from different artistic spheres into Diane's dream-film, primarily from film art, we perceive the dream as an intertextual, but also a metatextual structure. Diane's (re)arrangement of identity as a film indicates that, through oneiric symbols, Lynch contemplates the nature of the film medium, continu- ously communicating with the viewers who, loading their personal associations into the film, assemble a meaningful whole from it. The constitutive value of the author's cinematic poetics is evident in the dynamics of that communicative exchange between Lynch, his film characters and the audience.