Subverting Nostalgia in Twin Peaks: The Return - Resistance and the Television Revival
(2021) FIMT09 20211Film 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)
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- author
- Berggren, Charlie LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- FIMT09 20211
- year
- 2021
- 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
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- 2021-06-09 11:35:48
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