Return to Twin Peaks New Approaches to Materiality, Theory, and Genre on Television

by Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew; Spooner, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781137563842
• ISBN10: 1137563842
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Return to Twin Peaks offers new critical considerations and approaches to the Twin Peaks series, as well as reflections on its significance and legacy. With texts that analyze the ways in which readers and viewers endow texts with meaning in light of historically situated and culturally shared emphases and interpretive strategies, this volume showcases the ways in which new theoretical paradigms can reinvigorate and enrich understanding of what Twin Peaks was and what it has become since it went off the air in 1991.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Professor of Language and Literature in the Department of English at Central Michigan University, USA. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of 17 books, including The Works of Tim Burton: From Margins to Mainstream (Palgrave, 2013), Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler Warnings (Palgrave, 2010), and Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2008). He is an associate editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Catherine Spooner is Senior Lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books, including Fashioning Gothic Bodies (2004), Contemporary Gothic (2006), and the Routledge Companion to Gothic (2007). Since 2013, she has been the co-president of the International Gothic Association.

Table of Contents

Preface; David Lavery
Introduction: "The Gifted and the Damned"; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
PART I: THE MATTER OF TWIN PEAKS
1. "Wondrous and Strange: The Matter of Twin Peaks"; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
2. "Substance Abuse: Special Agent Dale Cooper, 'What's the matter?""; Martha P. Nochimson
3. "The owls are not what they seem": Animals and Nature in Twin Peaks; Sherryl Vint
4. "That Cherry Pie is Worth a Stop": Food and Spaces of Consumption in Twin Peaks; Lorna Piatti-Farnell
5. '"Wrapped in Plastic': David Lynch's Material Girls"; Catherine Spooner
PART II: TWIN PEAKS, IN THEORY
6. "Jacques Lacan, Walk With Me: on the Letter"; Éric Savoy
7. "Lodged in a Fantasy Space: Twin Peaks and Hidden Obscenities"; Todd McGowan
PART III: GENRE, FANDOM, AND NEW REFLECTIONS
8. "'Complementary Verses': The Science Fiction of Twin Peaks"; J. P. Telotte
9. ""Doing Weird Things for the Sake of Being Weird': Directing Twin Peaks"; Stacey Abbott
10. "I'll See You Again in 25 Years": Paratextually Re-commodifying and Revising; Matt Hills
PART IV: ANNIVERSARY TWIN PEAKS
11. "Nightmare in Red? Twin Peaks Parody, Homage, Intertextuality and Mashup"; Lorna Jowett
12. "Trapped in the Hysterical Sublime: Twin Peaks, Postmodernism, and the Neoliberal Now"; Linnie Blake