Weinstock J., Spooner C. (eds.) Return to Twin Peaks: New Approaches to Materiality, Theory, and Genre on Television

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 — 262 p. — ISBN10: 1137563842; ISBN13: 978-1137563842.This volume showcases the ways in which new theoretical paradigms and cultural emphases can reinvigorate and enrich understanding of what Twin Peaks was and what it has become since it went off the air in 1991.Introduction: “It is Happening Again”: New Reflections on Twin PeaksThe matter of Twin PeaksWondrous and Strange: The Matter of Twin Peaks
Substance Abuse: Special Agent Dale Cooper, “What’s the Matter?”
“The Owls Are Not What They Seem”: Animals and Nature in Twin Peaks
“That Cherry Pie is Worth a Stop”: Food and Spaces of Consumption in Twin Peaks
“Wrapped in Plastic”: David Lynch’s Material GirlsTwin Peaks, In TheoryJacques Lacan, Walk with Me: On the Letter
Lodged in a Fantasy Space: Twin Peaks and Hidden ObscenitiesGenre. Fandom. and New Reflections"Complementary Verses": The Science Fiction of Twin Peaks
"Doing Weird Things for the Sake of Being Weird": Directing Twin Peaks
"I'll See You Again in 25 Years" Paratextually Re-commodifying and Revisiting Anniversary Twin Peaks
Nightmare in Red? Twin Peaks Parody, Homage, Intertextuality, and Mashup
Trapped in the Hysterical Sublime: Twin Peaks, Postmodernism, and the Neoliberal Now