Going Home. Spectatorial Desire and Narrative Dispersal in David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return”
Abstract
The paper analyzes Twin Peaks: The Return (Showtime 2017), the miniseries that marked David Lynch’s return, after more than twenty-five years, to the celebrated TV universe he created in the early Nineties. With this new work, Lynch offers a self-reflexive pondering on complex serial narration and its reception at the time of the internet. Essential categories to account for Lynch’s multilayered reflection about spectatorial desires are those of nostalgia and uncanny, of epos and melodrama.
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