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

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: “It is Happening Again”: New Reflections on Twin Peaks....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Wondrous and Strange: The Matter of Twin Peaks....Pages 29-46
Substance Abuse: Special Agent Dale Cooper, “What’s the Matter?”....Pages 47-69
“The Owls Are Not What They Seem”: Animals and Nature in Twin Peaks....Pages 71-86
“That Cherry Pie is Worth a Stop”: Food and Spaces of Consumption in Twin Peaks....Pages 87-104
“Wrapped in Plastic”: David Lynch’s Material Girls....Pages 105-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Jacques Lacan, Walk with Me: On the Letter....Pages 123-141
Lodged in a Fantasy Space: Twin Peaks and Hidden Obscenities....Pages 143-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
“Complementary Verses”: The Science Fiction of Twin Peaks....Pages 161-174
“Doing Weird Things for the Sake of Being Weird”: Directing Twin Peaks....Pages 175-191
“I’ll See You Again in 25 Years”: Paratextually Re-commodifying and Revisiting Anniversary Twin Peaks....Pages 193-209
Nightmare in Red? Twin Peaks Parody, Homage, Intertextuality, and Mashup....Pages 211-227
Trapped in the Hysterical Sublime: Twin Peaks, Postmodernism, and the Neoliberal Now....Pages 229-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-262