In 2017, twenty-five years after its initial release, a new season of Mark Frost and David Lynch’s cultural touchstone Twin Peaks shook the world of television. In this volume, Franck Boulègue explores Twin Peaks: The Return through a philosophical, mythological, and spiritual lens.
Divided into three sections, the book first examines the third season as expanded storytelling through the lens of Gene Youngblood's theory of synesthetic cinema, intertextuality, integrationist, and segregationist approaches in the realm of fiction, and focuses on the role of audio and visual superimpositions in The Return. It goes on to question the nature of the reality depicted in the seasons via scientific approaches, such as electromagnetism, time theory, and multiverses. The third and final section aims to transcend this vision by exploring the role of theosophy, the occult, and other spiritual sources. With a foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz, editor at large at RogerEbert.com and television critic for New York magazine, this book is essential reading for fans of the landmark show and anyone who studies it.
Divided into three sections, the book first examines the third season as expanded storytelling through the lens of Gene Youngblood's theory of synesthetic cinema, intertextuality, integrationist, and segregationist approaches in the realm of fiction, and focuses on the role of audio and visual superimpositions in The Return. It goes on to question the nature of the reality depicted in the seasons via scientific approaches, such as electromagnetism, time theory, and multiverses. The third and final section aims to transcend this vision by exploring the role of theosophy, the occult, and other spiritual sources. With a foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz, editor at large at RogerEbert.com and television critic for New York magazine, this book is essential reading for fans of the landmark show and anyone who studies it.
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Matt Zoller Seitz
Introduction
Chapter I - Expanded Storytelling
1. The Web of Expanded Television and Synesthetic Cinema
2. Intertextualities
3. Integrationists and segregationists in the realm of fiction
4. Audio and visual superimpositions
Chapter II - What is Reality?
1. Atomic blasts, electromagnetism, and sounds
2. Time and time again
3. Parallel dimensions, multiverse theories, outer space and the Hollow Earth
Chapter III - Transcending The Return
1. Numerology, Tarot, Alchemy, Palmistry, ESP, and Astrology
2. Thought-Forms and Theosophy
3. The Book of Revelation, Vedic and Mesopotamian cosmologies
Conclusion