The Mystery of Twin Peaks

The anthology brings together various approaches and contexts to Twin Peaks, addressing the show's unique production and reception aesthetics. The range of contributions covers diverse topics: genre mixing, transactuality, complex narrative structures, dream and dreamlike qualities, gender and identity concepts, extreme fan culture, visual aesthetics, acoustic dimensions, postmodern referential culture, and not least, the question of which other quality TV series became possible due to Twin Peaks. The Editors Dr. Caroline Frank is a Research Associate and Habilitation candidate at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Kassel. Dr. Markus Schleich is a scholar of literature and media studies. He is a Research Associate at the School of English, Arts and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. The anthology brings together various approaches and contexts to Twin Peaks, addressing the show's unique production and reception aesthetics. The range of contributions covers diverse topics: genre mixing, transactuality, complex narrative structures, dream and dreamlike qualities, gender and identity concepts, extreme fan culture, visual aesthetics, acoustic dimensions, postmodern referential culture, and not least, the question of which other quality TV series became possible due to Twin Peaks.