Full of Secrets:
Full of Secrets:
Critical Approaches
to
TWIN PEAKS
Edited By
David Lavery
Detroit
Wayne State University Press
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: "The Semiotics of Cobbler: Twin Peaks' Interpretive Community
27 Bad Ideas: The Art and Politics of Twin Peaks
36 The Peaks and Valleys of Serial Creativity: What Happened to/on Twin Peaks
61 "Do You Enjoy Making the Rest of Us Feel Stupid?" alt.tv.twinpeaks, the Trickster Author, and Viewer Mastery
82 Family Romance, Family Violence, and the Fantastic in Twin Peaks
96 "Disturbing the Guests with This Racket": Music and Twin Peaks
109 The Canonization of Laura Palmer
128 Lynching Women: A Feminist Reading of Twin Peaks
141 Double Talk in Twin Peaks
153 Infinite Games: the Derationalization of Detection in Twin Peaks
169 Desire Under the Douglas Firs: Entering the Body of Reality in Twin Peaks
188 The Dis-order of Things in Twin Peaks
204 Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Twin Peaks
231 Appendix A: Directors and Writers
233 Appendix B: Cast List
237 Appendix C: Abbreviations
240 Appendix D: A Twin Peaks Calendar
245 Appendix E: Twin Peaks Scene Breadown
311 Bibliography
Contributors
Christy Desmet received her Ph.D. at U.C.L.A. The author of numerous articles and a book, Reading Shakespeare's Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity (University Press of New England), she is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is at work on a book on the canonization of secular female saints.
Marc Dolan received his Ph.D. in American Civilization at Harvard and is now Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. His essays have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Journal of American Studies, ESQ, and The Hemingway Review, and he is currently completing a book on the historical myth of the Lost Generation.
Diana Hume George received her Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo. Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College, she is the author of Blake and Freud (Cornell University Press) and Oedipus Anne: The Poetry of Anne Sexton (University of Illinois Press) and the (with Diane Wood Middlebrook) of Selected Poems of Anne Sexton (Houghton-Mifflin) and Sexton: Selected Criticism (Illinois), as well as author of two volumes of poetry.
Angela Hague earned her Ph.D. at Florida State University. The author of Iris Murdoch's Comic Vision (Associated Universities Press, she is professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. She is completing a book on literature and intuition.
Henry Jenkins received his Ph.D. in communication arts from Wisconsin-Madison. Currently asistant professor of literature at MIT, he is the author of three books: Textual Poachers (Routledge), "What Made Pistachio Nuts?": Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic (Columbia University Press), and The Science Fiction Audience: Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Their Followers, co-authored with John Tulloch (forthcoming from Routledge).
Kathryn Kalinak received her Ph.D. in English at the University of Illinois. The author of a variety of articles on film, and of Settling the Score: Music and the Classic Hollywood Film (University of Wisconsin Press), she is associate professor of English at Rhode Island College.
Alice Kuzniar received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. The author of numerous articles and of Delayed Endings: Nonclosure in Novalis and Holderlin (University of Georgia Press), winner of the 1985 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book Award, she is Associate Professor of German at The University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
David Lavery (Ph.D. in English, University of Florida) is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University. The author of numerous essays and of Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age ( Southern Illinois University Press), he is at work on a book on avocational creativity.
Martha Nochimson received a Ph.D in English and American Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The author of No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject (University of California Press), as well as scripts for such network soaps as Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, Loving, and Santa Barbara, she teaches in the Department of Literature, Language, and Communication of Mercy College and in the Department of Film and Television of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is at work on a book-length study of David Lynch for the University of California Press.
Jimmie L. Reeves (Ph.D., University of Texas) is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Michigan. The author of numerous articles on the media, he is co-author (with Richard Campbell) of Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy (Duke University Press).
Jonathan Rosenbaum is the film critic for the Chicago Reader and the author of several books, including Moving Places: A Life at the Movies (Harper and Row) and, with J. Hoberman, Midnight Movies (DeCapo Press).
Diane Stevenson earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University. At present she is an independent scholar, writing for The Nation and working on a mystery novel.
J. P. Telotte (Ph.D. in English, University of Florida) is professor of film studies in the Department of Language, Communciation, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous essays and of Dreams of Darkness: Fantasy and the Films of Val Lewton and Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir, both from the University of Illinois Press, and editor of The Cult Film Experience (University of Texas Press).