Return to Twin Peaks New Approaches to Materiality, Theory, and Genre on Television

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).