July 23, 2013
ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies

Movies vs. TV: Blue Velvet (David Lynch,
1986) versus Twin Peaks (ABC, 1990-1991)
Movies vs. Television ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies

“Jimmy Stewart from
Mars”—Mel Brooks
Born in Missoula,
Montana, the son of a
Boy Scout executive.
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Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
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Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Watch Blue Velvet’s Famous Opening Sequence on Amazon Prime .
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Blue Velvet (David
Lynch, 1986)
Kyle MacLaclan (Jeffrey Beaumont)
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Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
The Blue Lady/Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini)
Performs
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Blue Velvet (David
Lynch, 1986)
Laura Dern (Sandy Williams)
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Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper)
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Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) Menaces the Blue
Lady (Isabella Rossellini)
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Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Watch on Amazon Prime .
Ben (Dean Stockwell) is “fu$#ing suave” (1:19 in)
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Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Watch on Amazon Prime .
The Final Scene (1:57:58 in)
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Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
“This is American darkness - darkness in color, darkness with a happy ending. Lynch might turn out to be the first populist surrealist - a Frank
Capra of dream logic.“
"Maybe I'm sick, but I want to see that again." (audience member overheard by Kael after a screening of Blue Velvet)
Pauline Kael
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Twin Peaks (ABC, 1990-1991)
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Film Studies

Watch the Famous Dream
Sequence on Amazon Prime
(membership required)
Watch the Revelation of
BOB and the Murder of
Maddy on Amazon Prime
(membership required)
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The Owl Cave
Petroglyph
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5,120.1

Rodman, Warren. "The Series that
Will Change TV." Connoisseur,
September 1989: 139-44.
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“I have never been able to sit through a whole episode of
Twin Peaks. It's a postmodern soap opera, which means that every time someone on screen eats a piece of apple pie, you can hear a thousand students start typing their doctoral dissertations on
‘Twin Peaks: David Lynch and the Semiotics of Cobbler.’”
Libby Gelman-Waxner,
Premiere magazine
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“
. . . you can hear a thousand students start typing their doctoral dissertations on ‘Twin Peaks: David Lynch and the
Semiotics of Cobbler.’”
Libby Gelman-Waxner, Premiere magazine
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Television

Sir Paul, The Queen, and Twin
Peaks
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Lynchian. David Foster Wallace on
Lynch’s style as a filmmaker:
 “both extremely personal and extremely remote”
 “the absence of linearity and narrative logic”
 “the heavy multivalence of the symbolism”
 “the glazed opacity of the characters’ faces”
 “the weird ponderous quality of the dialogue”
 “the regular deployment of grotesques as figurants”
 “the precise, painterly way scenes are staged and lit”
 “the overlush, possibly voyeuristic way that violence, deviance, and general hideousness are depicted”
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Twin Peaks DNA: “dreamy, cinematic (rather than televisual) style, slow pacing, extreme violence, emotional excess, disturbing sexuality, strung-out narrative, accentuation of subtext, controversial subject matter, lush scoring, uncanny dream sequences, the demand for complete attention it placed upon television viewers accustomed to distraction,” its reliance on “a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former’s perpetual containment in the latter” (David
Foster Wallace).
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Annie Blackburne
(Heather Graham)
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Twin Peaks Characters

BOB (Frank
Silva)
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Denis(e) Bryson
(David Duchovny)
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Gordon Cole
(David Lynch)
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FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper
(Kyle MacLachlan)
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James Hurley
(James
Marshall)
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The Log Lady
(Catherine Coulson)
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Man from Another Place
(Michael J. Anderson)

Laura Palmer
(Sheryl Lee)
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Leland Palmer
(Ray Wise)
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The World’s
Oldest
Bellhop
(Hank
Worden)
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Twin Peaks
(USA: ABC, 1990-1991): Season One
Episode
Pilot (1)
4
5
2
3
6
7
8
Airdate
4/8/90
4/12/90
4/19/90
4/26/90
5/3/90
5/10/90
5/17/90
5/23/90
Writer
David Lynch &
Mark Frost
Lynch & Frost
Lynch & Forst
Harley Peyton
Robert Engels
Frost
Peyton
Frost
Director
Lynch
Duwayne Dunham
Lynch
Tina Rathbone
Tim Hunter
Lesli Linka Glatter
Caleb Deschanel
Frost

Twin Peaks
(USA: ABC, 1990-1991): Season Two
Episode
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Airdate
9/30/90
10/6/90
10/13/90
Writer
Lynch & Frost
Peyton
Engels
10/20/90 Jerry Stahl, Frost, Peyton,
Engels
10/27/90 Barry Pullman
Director
Lynch
Lynch
Glatter
Todd Holland
11/3/90
11/10/90
11/17/90
12/1/90
Peyton & Engels
Frost
Scott Frost
Frost, Peyton, & Engels
Graehme
Clifford
Glatter
Lynch
Deschanel
Hunter

Twin Peaks
(USA: ABC, 1990-1991): Season Two
Episode
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Airdate
12/8/90
12/15/90
1/12/91
1/19/91
1/26/91
2/9/91
2/16/91
3/28/91
4/4/91
Writer
Tricia Brock
Pullman
Peyton & Engels
Peyton
Scott Frost
Director
Rathbone
Dunham
Deschanel
Holland
Uli Edel
Peyton & Engels Diane Keaton
Brock Glatter
Pullman
Peyton & Engels
James Foley
Dunham

Twin Peaks
(USA: ABC, 1990-1991): Season Two
Episode
27
28
29
30
Airdate
4/11/91
4/18/91
6/10/91
6/10/91
Writer
Frost & Peyton
Peyton & Engels
Pullman
Frost, Peyton, & Engels
Director
Jonathan
Sanger
Stephen
Gyllenhaal
Hunter
Lynch
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch,
August 1992)

Lesli Linka Glatter
 2011 The Chicago Code
 2009-2010 Lie to Me
 2007-2010 Mad Men (6 episodes)
 2010 True Blood
 2010 Pretty Little Liars
 2010 The Good Wife
 2007-2009 House M.D.
 2009 The Mentalist
 2009 Weeds
 2009 The Unit
 1995-2008 ER (13 episodes)
 2008 The Starter Wife
 2008 Swingtown
 2007 Journeyman
 2007 Heroes
 2007 Heartland
 2006 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Lesli Linka Glatter
(continued)
 2006 The Closer
 2006 The Evidence
 2002-2006 The West Wing (8 episodes)
 2005 Grey's Anatomy
 2005 Numb3rs
 2005 The O.C.
 2000-2002 Gilmore Girls (5 episodes, including the Pilot)
 1999-2001 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit
 2000 Freaks and Geeks
 1998 Brooklyn South
 1996 Murder One
 1995 Now and Then
 1994 NYPD Blue
 1992 On the Air (TV mini-series)
 1990-1991 Twin Peaks

The Secret Diary of
Laura Palmer, written by
Lynch’s daughter
Jennifer (pictured)

The Autobiography of
F.B.I. Special Agent Dale
Cooper: My Life. My
Tapes

Diane: The Twin Peaks
Tapes of Agent
Cooper

Welcome to Twin Peaks:
Access Guide to the
Town

Saturday Night Live Twin Peaks Parody, September 1990

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Contributors | Acknowledgements
 Introduction: "The Semiotics of Cobbler: Twin Peaks' Interpretive Community | David Lavery
 Bad Ideas: The Art and Politics of Twin Peaks | Jonathan Rosenbaum
 The Peaks and Valleys of Serial Creativity: What Happened to/on Twin Peaks | Marc Dolan
 "Do You Enjoy Making the Rest of Us Feel Stupid?" alt.tv.twinpeaks, the Trickster Author, and
Viewer Mastery | Henry Jenkins
 Family Romance, Family Violence, and the Fantastic in Twin Peaks | Diane Stevenson
 "Disturbing the Guests with This Racket": Music and Twin Peaks | Kathryn Kalinak
 The Canonization of Laura Palmer | Christy Desmet
 Lynching Women: A Feminist Reading of Twin Peaks | Diana Hume George
 Double Talk in Twin Peaks | Alice Kuzniar
 Infinite Games: the Derationalization of Detection in Twin Peaks | Angela Hague
 Desire Under the Douglas Firs: Entering the Body of Reality in Twin Peaks | Martha
Nochimson
 The Dis-order of Things in Twin Peaks | J. P. Telotte
 Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Twin Peaks | Jimmie L. Reeves, et al
Appendix A: Directors and Writers | Appendix B: Cast List | Appendix C:
Abbreviations | Appendix D: A Twin Peaks Calendar | Appendix E:
Twin Peaks Scene Breakdown | Bibliography

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Angelo Badalamenti
“Secrets from Another Place:
Creating Twin Peaks”— ”Where
We’re From: Creating the
Music”
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 David Lavery, Peaked Out
 Maria M. Carrion (Columbia University), Twin Peaks and the Circular Ruins of Fiction: Figuring (Out) the Acts of Reading
 Melynda Huskey (Washington State University), Rewriting the Sensation
Novel
 Lenora Ledwon (University of Notre Dame), Twin Peaks and the Television
Gothic
 Catherine Nickerson (Emory University), Serial Killers and Serial Detection in Twin Peaks
 Nicholas Birns (New York University), Telling Inside from Outside, or, Who
Really Killed Laura Palmer?
 Michael Carroll (New Mexico Highlands), Agent Cooper's Errand in the
Wilderness: Twin Peaks and American Mythology
 Scott Pollard (Christopher Newport University), Cooper, Details, and the
Patriotic Mission of Twin Peaks
 Jim Welsh (Salisbury State University), Lynch by the Book