Approaching Twin Peaks

Eric Hoffman, a poet and essayist, is the author of sixteen books and lives in Connecticut. Dominick Grace, a professor of English at Brescia University College, has published numerous articles on subjects ranging from medieval and early modern literature to contemporary popular culture. He lives in London, Ontario, Canada.

“This new collection of essays on the original series will enrich and expand discussions and debates about one of television’s most controversial, confounding, innovative and bizarre shows of all time. This scholarly collection will open up many new realms of exploration”—Pop Culture Classics.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. “A place both wonderful and strange”: The Legacy of Twin PeaksSurreal and Surrealist Elements in David Lynch’s Television Series Twin Peaks (Nicola Glaubitz and Jens Schröter)Intercourse Between Two Worlds (John J. Pierce)Smashing the Small Screen: David Lynch, Twin Peaksand Reinventing Television (Kyle Barrett) “I’ll see you in the trees”: Trauma, Intermediality and the Pacific Northwest Weird (Rachel Joseph) Beyond Angels, Beyond Demons: Post-Christian Dissociative Rhetoric Within Twin Peaks (Gavin F. Hurley) “These old woods”: Spiritual Ambivalence, Moral Panic and Unsettling Legacy in Twin Peaks (Elizabeth Lowry) Leland Palmer Was Not Alone: The Lucifer Effect and Domestic Violence in Twin Peaks and The Shining (Michail Zontos) David Lynch’s American Nightmare (Siobhan Lyons)Evil and Vampirism in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Martha L. Diaz)How Twin Peaks Brought Viewers Existential Mobsters and Advertising Doppelgängers (Donald McCarthy) Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery and the Narrative Experience (Fabian Grumbrecht)Doppelgänger: Fire Walk with Me’s “Missing Pieces” (Scott Von Doviak)About the ContributorsIndex197