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Movies vs. Television July 23, 2013 ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies

Movies vs. TV: Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) versus Twin Peaks (ABC, 1990-1991)

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David Lynch (1946- ) “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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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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Laura Dern (Sandy Williams)

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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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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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“The series that will change TV.” 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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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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The Characters

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Annie Blackburne (Heather Graham)

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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)

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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

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Director

Pilot (1)

4/8/90

David Lynch & Mark Frost

Lynch

2

4/12/90

Lynch & Frost

Duwayne Dunham

3

4/19/90

Lynch & Forst

Lynch

4

4/26/90

Harley Peyton

Tina Rathbone

5

5/3/90

Robert Engels

Tim Hunter

6

5/10/90

Frost

Lesli Linka Glatter

7

5/17/90

Peyton

Caleb Deschanel

8

5/23/90

Frost

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Airdate

Writer

Director

9

9/30/90

Lynch & Frost

Lynch

10

10/6/90

Peyton

Lynch

11

10/13/90

Engels

Glatter

12

10/20/90

Jerry Stahl, Frost, Peyton, Engels

Todd Holland

13

10/27/90

Barry Pullman

Graehme Clifford

14

11/3/90

Peyton & Engels

Glatter

15

11/10/90

Frost

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16

11/17/90

Scott Frost

Deschanel

17

12/1/90

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Hunter

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Airdate

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Director

18

12/8/90

Tricia Brock

Rathbone

19

12/15/90

Pullman

Dunham

20

1/12/91

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Deschanel

21

1/19/91

Peyton

Holland

22

1/26/91

Scott Frost

Uli Edel

23

2/9/91

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Diane Keaton

24

2/16/91

Brock

Glatter

25

3/28/91

Pullman

James Foley

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4/4/91

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Dunham

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Writer

Director

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4/11/91

Frost & Peyton

Jonathan Sanger

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4/18/91

Peyton & Engels

Stephen Gyllenhaal

29

6/10/91

Pullman

Hunter

30

6/10/91

Frost, Peyton, & Engels

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

Paratexts

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

There’s No Place Like Home: Twin Peaks’ Oz Promo

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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

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

Henry Jenkins (1958- ).

Family Romance, Family Violence, and the Fantastic in Twin Peaks | Diane Stevenson

Edward Said

Infinite Games: the Derationalization of Detection in Twin Peaks | Angela Hague

Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Twin Peaks | Richard Campbell, Jimmie L. Reeves, et al

"Disturbing the Guests with This Racket": Music and Twin Peaks | Kathryn Kalinak

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