Skip to main content

LUP Student Papers

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Subverting Nostalgia in Twin Peaks: The Return - Resistance and the Television Revival

Berggren, Charlie LU (2021) FIMT09 20211
Film Studies
Abstract
Twin Peaks (2017), also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, has a problematic relationship to its predecessor Twin Peaks (1990-1991). In this thesis, I argue that The Return represents the past by undermining a sense of pacifying nostalgia, instead highlighting the incongruity of its ostensible return. By performing a textual analysis of the series’ representations of the past in its visuals and narrative, as well as its portrayal of returning characters, I argue for a reading of The Return as being resistant in its depiction of nostalgia, a theory developed by Vera Dika. By also discussing nostalgia in The Return in broader terms of serial television in general, and the ‘revival’ genre in particular, I position The Return as a... (More)
Twin Peaks (2017), also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, has a problematic relationship to its predecessor Twin Peaks (1990-1991). In this thesis, I argue that The Return represents the past by undermining a sense of pacifying nostalgia, instead highlighting the incongruity of its ostensible return. By performing a textual analysis of the series’ representations of the past in its visuals and narrative, as well as its portrayal of returning characters, I argue for a reading of The Return as being resistant in its depiction of nostalgia, a theory developed by Vera Dika. By also discussing nostalgia in The Return in broader terms of serial television in general, and the ‘revival’ genre in particular, I position The Return as a metafictionally situated revival text. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
Berggren, Charlie LU
supervisor
organization
course
FIMT09 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), Resistant nostalgia, Revival television, Nostalgia film, Vera Dika, David Lynch
language
English
id
9050912
date added to LUP
2021-06-09 11:35:48
date last changed
2021-06-09 11:35:48
@misc{9050912,
  abstract     = {{Twin Peaks (2017), also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, has a problematic relationship to its predecessor Twin Peaks (1990-1991). In this thesis, I argue that The Return represents the past by undermining a sense of pacifying nostalgia, instead highlighting the incongruity of its ostensible return. By performing a textual analysis of the series’ representations of the past in its visuals and narrative, as well as its portrayal of returning characters, I argue for a reading of The Return as being resistant in its depiction of nostalgia, a theory developed by Vera Dika. By also discussing nostalgia in The Return in broader terms of serial television in general, and the ‘revival’ genre in particular, I position The Return as a metafictionally situated revival text.}},
  author       = {{Berggren, Charlie}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Subverting Nostalgia in Twin Peaks: The Return - Resistance and the Television Revival}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}