Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to ""Twin Peaks (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

Looks good after a flick through. Expect it to be interesting.

After Twin Peaks, the series, ended and it's prequel film, Fire Walk, with Me died on the critique's operating table, Full of Secrets, by David Lavery, arrived, late and full of brilliant essays on the meaning, the text and the subtext of Twin Peaks, both onscreen and in the greater world.If you are a fan of the series — if you are excited by the prospect of its forthcoming Showtime resurrection, this book couldn't possible be better suited to indulge your curiosity about the show.

I suppose the idiosyncracies of an artist such as David Lynch will attract an audience which enjoys trying to make sense of his work; that, after all, is what any creative mind is looking for. Unfortunately, he also attracts his fair share of pretentious, wilfully obfuscating drivel from some critics posing as academics. I've spent decades in the field of philosophical theology and know pretentiousness when I read it. To be fair, there is much in this collection which is provocative and revealing and takes one's ideas off in a new direction and for that reason, it's definitely worth reading. However, if the proffered explanation of an idea or theme is even more incomprehensible than the theme it's attempting to explain, it's a fair bet that the writer is as much in the dark as the reader.

Meaty analysis on the series. Not for lightweights.

Twin Peaks offered a door into that which is below the Matrix that we assume is "reality." In many ways it is like the red pill that Morpheus offers Neo. This book explores the various elements in the show that opens up vision. To see more does not mean there is some final answers. What does happen is-- what we assume proves to be wrong. When we hear the music of the show it is not just supportive sound, when we see people act they are not carrying out the cliches of the ordinary. We see the typologies of our pop culture but the cliches of their characters are violated or turned upside down. There is humor in the show because humor liberates and the apparent order of the town is seen to be an accomplishment of all kinds of human evnergy and possibility hidden below the cliches. If you hated the show-- the book will be of no value. IF you liked the show or are passionate about the work of David Lynch-- this book can give you words and pathways to walk to learn why.