Politics of Twin Peaks

Amanda DiPaolo is associate professor of human rights at St. Thomas University.Jamie Gillies is associate professor of communications and public policy at St. Thomas University.

• 1.The Nuclear Anxiety of Twin Peaks: The Return Ashlee Joyce2 Is it Future or is it Past?: The Politics and use of Nostalgia in Twin PeaksAmanda DiPaolo3. Rural and Suburban Lynch: Characterizations of Hard Times in Reagan’s andTrump’s AmericaJamie Gillies4. Dirty Bearded Men in a Room!: Twin Peaks: The Return and the Politics of Lynchian ComedyMartin Fradley and John A. Riley5. Violence, Representation, and Girl Power: Twin Peaks’ Female Characters and Third Wave FeminismStacy Rusnak6. The Owls are Not What They Seem: Retaking Queer Meaning in Twin PeaksBenjamin Kruger-Robbins 7. Zen, or the Art of Being Agent CooperDarci Doll8. The Transmigration of Cooper: Echoes of Plato’s Recollection in Twin PeaksJean-Philippe Ranger9. Life in the Black Lodge: The Twin Challenge of Watching Twin PeaksShai Biderman, Ronen Gil, and Ido Lewit

The Politics of Twin Peaks, delves into the political aspects of Lynch’s work. Edited by Amanda DiPaolo and Jamie Gillies, the collection offers an interesting range of political subjects and theories in an attempt to reveal and understand the possibility of politics that are utilized by Lynch.