Twin Peaks
With a quirky mixture of murder mystery, soap opera, film noir, and the avant-garde, Twin Peaks rewrote the formula for prime-time television drama in the early 1990s. Created by American f...
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In the following essay, Nochimson discusses the character of Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks, asserting that Cooper represents a new kind of movie and television detective.
The dazzled affection that Da...
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In the following essay, Olson discusses Lynch's spiritual vision in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
A few minutes into David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, loud-talking, dual h...
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In the following essay, Davenport discusses the representations of sexual abuse and violence against women in the television series Twin Peaks, arguing that Lynch's portrayal of family violence...
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In the following essay, Ledwon examines Lynch's use of and innovations on conventional Gothic themes and motifs in Twin Peaks.
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its...
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In the following essay, Birns asserts that the television series Twin Peaks combines postmodern elements of self-referentiality with Romantic elements of heightened emotional affect.
The question o...
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In the following essay, George provides a feminist analysis of the representation of violence against women in the television series Twin Peaks.
Should I call this a double-breasted approach? Laura...
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In the following excerpt, Romney criticizes Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me as having nothing new or original to offer its audience.
David Lynch's long-awaited Twin Peaks film would have provi...
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In the following essay, Carrión compares viewing the television series Twin Peaks with the act of reading a complex fictional narrative such as those written by Jorge Luis Borges.)
In a dream...
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My friends never understood my crush on Kyle MacLachlan. They had only seen him as Trey MacDougal, the stiff-collared, vanilla doctor with erectile dysfunction on Sex and the City. “The man c...
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Make up your own playbill for Campaign '08 by matching politicians to the talent pool of actors who could portray them.Hint: Age doesn't matter and appearance isn't everything.1. John McCain2. Bill...
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In a weird way, it’s fitting that the Gilmore Girls: The Complete Series Collection would arrive this week, just after Norman Mailer’s passing. It was not his last television appearanc...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For former "The X-Files"
star David Duchovny, the television show's slogan "The Truth Is
Out There" had extra meaning during his final year on the Fox
network playing an FB...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 21-27:Oct. 21: Actress Joyce Randolph ("The Honeymooners") is 82. Keyboardist Manfred Mann is 67. Guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's is 66. S...
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When Krystal Nagle isn't at the hospital visiting her newborn daughter, the new mom is exercising outside a shelter trying not to worry about her home.Nagle, 24, had been recovering from 14 hours o...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 20-26:Jan. 20: Singer Slim Whitman is 84. Actress Patricia Neal is 82. Comedian Arte Johnson is 79. Director David Lynch is 62. Guitarist Paul Stanley of Ki...
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Selected home-video releases:"Bridge to Terabithia"Fantasy comes alive in this family hit adapted from the acclaimed children's novel by Katherine Paterson, the screenplay co-written by her son, pl...
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Twin Peaks
Critical Essay by Martha Nochimson
In the Queue: Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition
