the passion of david lynch: wild at heart in hollywood

And Martha Nochimson's 'Desire Under the Douglas Firs: Entering the Body of Reality in Twin Peaks,' in contrast to some of the other essays in the book, explicitly analyzed the troubled making of the show. She rooted her analysis of the series finale - particularly Cooper's 'defeat' in the Red Room - in careful research, observing not only what David Lynch and Mark Frost had done, but what they believed.

Diane Stevenson's essay 'Family Romance, Family Violence, and the Fantastic in Twin Peaks' tackled one of the show's most troubled and tangled points, the intersection of real-world trauma with depictions of an otherworldly mythology. Both addressed what remained 'unsettled' (unsettling?) about Twin Peaks for me - and thus what drew me back into that world after a five-year break. Some essays were more compelling than others, but two immediately caught my interest. When I returned to Twin Peaks earlier this year, it was through a book, Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks.

Martha Nochimson, author of the critical analyses The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood (1997) and David Lynch Swerves (2013), has recently written two notable essays: 'Don't call 'Twin Peaks' a 'cult classic'' and 'David Chase finally reveals Tony's fate on 'The Sopranos.''

The passion of david lynch: wild at heart in hollywood