Twin peaks : fire walk with me /

Twin peaks : fire walk with me /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hallam, Lindsay Anne, 1979- author.
Imprint:	Leighton Buzzard : Auteur, 2018. ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Devil's advocates Devil's advocates.
Subject:	Twin Peaks, fire walk with me (Motion picture)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13562907

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Varying Form of Title:	Fire walk with me
ISBN:	9781911325659 1911325655 9781800347199 1800347197 9781911325642
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128). Lindsay Hallam is senior lecturer in film at the University of East London. Print version record.
Summary:	"When David Lynch's film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, a prequel to the television series Twin Peaks, premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival it was met with met with outright hostility. Subsequent reviews from critics were almost unanimously negative, and many fans of the show felt betrayed, as their beloved town was suddenly revealed as a personal hell. Yet in the years since the film's release, there has begun to be a gradual wave of reappraisal and appreciation, one that accelerated with the broadcast of Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017. What has been central to this reevaluation is the realization that what Lynch had created was not a parody of soap opera and detective television but a horror movie. In this Devil's Advocate, Lindsay Hallam argues that the horror genre aids Lynch's purpose in presenting the protagonist Laura Palmer's subjective experience leading to her death as the incorporation of horror tropes actually leads to a more accurate representation of a victim's suffering and confusion. She goes on to explore how the film was an attempt by Lynch to take back ownership of the material and to examine the initial reaction and subsequent reevaluation of the film, as well as the paratexts that link to it and the influence that Fire Walk with Me now has on contemporary film and across popular culture. Hallam's analysis of Peaks is spectacularly insightful, particularly her investigation of the film as a study of deep trauma."--
Other form:	Print version: Hallam, Lindsay Anne, 1979- Twin Peaks. Leighton Buzzard : Auteur, 2018 1911325647

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Filled with secrets: Fire Walk with Me as a Twin Peaks film
Cherry pie topped in barbed wire: Fire Walk with Me as a horror movie
'Since I was twelve': Fire Walk with Me as a trauma film
We live inside a dream: Fire Walk with Me as a David Lynch film
What follows: the influence of Fire Walk with Me
The entire mystery: paratexts and the ever-expanding Twin Peaks universe
Conclusion: Laura is the one.