When David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks (1990–2017) first aired, it fundamentally altered the landscape of television. From uncanny evocations of dream states to the horrific portrayal of incestuous abuse and murder, the televisual medium, after its broadcast, would never be the same again. This chapter reads the programme and 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me as an ongoing ghost story fundamentally concerned with television, from the uncanny mechanics of the technology itself to its impact on audiences. It examines how, as television viewership grows in both ubiquity and danger, with reality TV increasingly associated with suicide and reportage with bigotry, its representation in Twin Peaks has also become increasingly horrific, confronting its audience with urgent ethical questions. In this context, the spectrality to which Lynch and Frost repeatedly return as a central concern reveals connections between domestic abuse and domestic communications technology.

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“It is in Our House Now”: Twin Peaks as Televisual Ghost Story

  • Brontë Schiltz

摘要

When David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks (1990–2017) first aired, it fundamentally altered the landscape of television. From uncanny evocations of dream states to the horrific portrayal of incestuous abuse and murder, the televisual medium, after its broadcast, would never be the same again. This chapter reads the programme and 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me as an ongoing ghost story fundamentally concerned with television, from the uncanny mechanics of the technology itself to its impact on audiences. It examines how, as television viewership grows in both ubiquity and danger, with reality TV increasingly associated with suicide and reportage with bigotry, its representation in Twin Peaks has also become increasingly horrific, confronting its audience with urgent ethical questions. In this context, the spectrality to which Lynch and Frost repeatedly return as a central concern reveals connections between domestic abuse and domestic communications technology.