David Lynch and the American West

Rob E. King is an associate librarian at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library and a doctoral student in English at Texas Tech University. He has contributed to 25YL, Blue Rose Magazine, Twin Peaks Unwrapped podcast and published in New American Notes Online and the West Texas Historical Review. Christine Self, Ph.D. has worked in higher education for nearly 20 years. Her research interests include family involvement in higher education, the experiences of women in higher education, women's and gender studies, and sexual violence prevention in higher education. She lives in Lubbock, Texas and serves as the director for Family Outreach and Engagement at Texas Tech University, Parent & Family Relations. Robert G. Weaver is the manuscript archivist within Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, where he coordinates making both physical and digital archival collections available. He served as editor of the West Texas Historical Review for the West Texas Historical Association.

“An excellent contribution to the study of the western genre, notions of the border and frontier, and the role of the indigenous in Lynch’s oeuvre.”— Stacy Rusnak, professor of film, Georgia Gwinnett College

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword: A Long Way from the World: David Lynch and the American WestJohn ThorneIntroductionRob E. King, Christine Self and Robert G. WeaverPart I: RegionalismConsidering Regionalism in the Films of David Lynch: An Interview with Andréas HalskovRob E. King“To the hellhole it is now”: The Pastoral and Industrialization in EraserheadFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsWatch and Listen to the Dream of Time and Space: Historiography, Geography and Twin PeaksRebecca HeimelThe Wood for the Trees: Regional and Anthropocene Signals in the Pacific Northwest Forests of Twin PeaksAndy HagemanDark Americana: Identity, Frontiers and Heterotopias in David Lynch’s DreamsMarko LukićPart II: Indigeneity and RepresentationA Discussion on the Treatment of Indigeneity in Twin Peaks: An Interview with GeoffRob E. King“It has something to do with your heritage”: Indigenous Arts in Twin PeaksDavid Titterington“Very old, but always current”: Indigenous Geographies in Twin PeaksGarrett Wayne Wright“I am the FBI”: American Identity in Twin PeaksMolly O’GormanPart III: Road Narrative and GenreThoughts on the American Southwest in Film and Television: An Interview with Monica Montelongo FloresRob E. KingOnce Upon a Time in Rancho Rosa: Reading Twin Peaks Season 3 as a ­Neo-WesternFranck Boulègue and Marisa C. HayesI’m Going West, Diane: Masculinity and the Cowboy Archetype in the Works of David LynchAndrew T. BurtDavid Lynch’s Desert Frontier: Road Movie, Desert Horror and Western LiminalityThomas BrittThe Western Road as Metaphor for American Instability in David Lynch’s Lost HighwayMark HendersonRe-Imagined West in the L.A. Trilogy: A Heritage of California Fiction and American TraumaRob E. KingAppendix: Character and Actor Guide for David Lynch Films in This CollectionAbout the ContributorsIndex