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.

Autorentext
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 19 books, including The Works of Tim Burton: From Margins to Mainstream (Palgrave, 2013). He is an associate editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Catherine Spooner is Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University, UK. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books, including Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (2015). Since 2013, she has been the co-president of the International Gothic Association.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

Introduction. It is Happening Again: New Reflections on Twin Peaks (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 (Eric 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 TwinPeaks (Stacey Abbott).- 10. I'll See You Again in 25 Years: Paratextually Re-commodifying and Revisiting Anniversary Twin Peaks (Matt Hills).- 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).