Lavery discusses Twin Peaks as a cultural phenomenon using three of Umberto Eco's criteria for cult status. In the introduction to a collection of critical essays on the series, David This is in part due to the fact that Twin Peaks is associated with film-maker David Lynch and has a cult following but also from the sheer pleasure derived from becoming involved in the complex world of Twin Peaks.
Internet in discussion groups, at the annual Twin Peaks Festival in Washington, and within the academy, people continue to engage with the series. In the Twin Peaks fanzine Wrapped in Plastic, on the
Twin Peaks has now been off the air for over fifteen years and is considered a cult classic.
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Clearly, this was meant to be a tribute to the popularity of the 2 series, yet it underscores the presence of deeply-rooted misogyny to name a raped and murdered figure "Woman of the Year." The primary reason for the eventual cancellation of the series is largely understood to be the decline in interest after the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer was solved in episode seventeen, midway through the second season. Laura Palmer, the character around whom the mystery of the series revolves, was named "Woman of the Year" by Esquire magazine, despite (because of?) the fact that she is raped and murdered as of the first episode of the series.
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Twin Peaks was referred to as "the year's best show" byĮntertainnzent Weekly, "the wingdingiest thing to make it onto network television in many a full moon" by the Village Voice, and was even compared to Bunuel's Theĭiscrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie in the New Yorker due to its surreal visual and narrative qualities (Rosenbaum 24). There is much discussion as to why the series was put on hiatus and then finally cancelled, especially after having garnered so many positive reviews even after its initial hype. Peaks-wordplay based on hero Agent Cooper's nickname) resulted in over ten thousand letters sent to ABC, and after the series won multiple television awards, including being named the year's best show by the Television Critics Association, and being nominated for fourteen Emmys, ABC aired the last six episodes, and then cancelled the series permanently (Lavery 2). The series ran for twenty-nine hour-long episodes, but was interrupted in February of 1991 following episode twenty-three when ABC announced the series would be put on indefinite hiatus.After a letter- writing campaign organized by a group called C.O.O.P. David Lynch also acted in the series as F.B.I. The executive producers were Mark Frost and David Lynch, who between them wrote or co-wrote thirteen episodes and directed six. The pilot episode of the television series Twin Peaks aired on ABC in April ofġ990. 81 Chapter One: Twin Peaks as Pop Culture Phenomenon 6įeminist Inquiries into Popular Culture, Method and Theory. Writing and Learning Center for the writing help, to Simon Tatom for fixing my margins, and most especially to Brad Buckley for motivating me to get a move on. I would like to express my thanks to my Women Studies cohort for theīombs Away Café "intervention," to my family for dealing with my stubbornness during the Dark Times, to Marieke Steuben and the OSU My signature below authorizes release of my thesis to any reader upon request. I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. Major Professor, representing Women Studies Redacted for Privacy Committee member, representing Women Studies Presented JCommencement June 2007 Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies thesis of Susan Wood presented on June 8, 2006. Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of ©Copyright by Susan Wood JAll Rights Reserved Twin Peaksand the Ideological Problematic of Feminine Representation: An Examination of the Character Audrey Home The concept of the ideological problematic, in which a text can be shown to hold multiple and contradictory meanings, is applied to a close textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Using reader- response theory, I seek to show that while the series conforms to patriarchal media conventions such as the male gaze and narrative stereotypes such as the fairy tale princess, there also exists within the text resistance to these normative conventions, which provides pleasure for a feminist audience. In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the television seriesTwin Peaksrepresents the feminine through a textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Title:Twin Peaksand the Ideological Problematic of Feminine Representation: An Examination of the Character Audrey Home. Susan Wood for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Women Studies, and English presented on June 8, 2006.
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