Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return

Chapter 1 Entering the World of Twin Peaks

Chapter 2 Is It Happening Again? Twin Peaks and ‘The Return’ of History

Chapter 3 Extraterrestrial Intelligences in the Atomic Age: Exploring the Rhetorical Function of Aliens and the ‘Alien’ in the Twin Peaks Universe

Chapter 4 Lucy Finally Understands How Cellphones Work: Ambiguous Digital Technologies in Twin Peaks: The Return and Its Fan Communities

Chapter 5 ‘The Owls Are Not What They Meme’: Making Sense of Twin Peaks with Internet Memes

Chapter 6 ‘Is It About the Bunny? No, It’s Not About the Bunny!’: David Lynch’s Fandom and Trolling of Peak TV Audiences

Chapter 7 ‘Between Two Mysteries’: Intermediacy in Twin Peaks: The Return

Chapter 8 ‘My Log Has a Message for You,’ or, Vibrant Matter and Twin Peaks: On Thing-Power and Subjectivity

Chapter 9 ‘Here’s to the Pie That Saved Your Life, Dougie’: The Weird Realism of Twin Peaks

Chapter 11 How Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks Books Clarify and Confound the Nature of Reality

Chapter 12 Copy of a Copy of a Copy: Theorizing the Triplicity of Self and Otherness in Season Three of Twin Peaks

Chapter 13 From Lost Highway to Twin Peaks: Representations of Trauma and Transformation in Lynch’s Late Works

Chapter 14 Kafka’s Crime Film: Twin Peaks—The Return and the Brotherhood of Lynch and Kafka

Chapter 15 Who Is the Dreamer?

Chapter 16 Is It the Wind in the Tall Trees or Just the Distant Buzz of Electricity?: Sound and Music as Portent in Twin Peaks’ Season Three

Chapter 17 ‘Listen to the Sounds’: Sound and Storytelling in Twin Peaks: The Return

Chapter 18 ‘I’ll Point You to a Better Time/A Safer Place to Be’: Music, Nostalgia and Estrangement in Twin Peaks: The Return