{"title":"Cherry Pie Wrapped in Barbed Wire: Fire Walk With Me as a Horror Movie","authors":"Lindsay Hallam","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781911325642.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325642.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses Twin Peaks and its engagement with and subversion of genre conventions. It discloses how the Twin Peaks television series is viewed as a work of postmodernism and a pastiche of several genres that provide references to film noir, which gives the series a cinematic feel. It also points out that the Twin Peaks series parodied television genre conventions, while David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is less interested in parody and pastiche and presents a more personal and subjective story. The chapter examines how Fire Walk With Me reveals more of the strange and unearthly realm that exists side-by-side with the town where larger forces of good and evil fight to gain control of Laura's soul. It describes the strong sense of the supernatural in Fire Walk With Me; an element that situates the film in the horror genre through the creation of mythical and mystical spaces.","PeriodicalId":312501,"journal":{"name":"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128858241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Follows: The Influence of Fire Walk With Me","authors":"Lindsay Hallam","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781911325642.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325642.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter points out how the scenes of horror in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me are markedly different to those from what could be deemed to be more 'typical' horror films. It describes Fire Walk With Me as a shining example of how horror films also explore the emotions and experiences of trauma, grief, despair, and family dysfunction. It also explains how horror films comment on wider societal issues and examine complex relationships with own psychology, body and sexuality, and spiritual, metaphysical, and philosophical beliefs. This chapter cites horror films tha tare often marginalised as nothing more than a cheap rollercoaster ride with a scant regard for narrative and a bloodthirsty attitude. It discusses Fire Walk With Me's influence on contemporary horror cinema, which have been subject to the 'post-horror' debate.","PeriodicalId":312501,"journal":{"name":"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132042622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It Follows","authors":"Josh Grimm","doi":"10.1007/978-1-84882-468-3_12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-468-3_12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312501,"journal":{"name":"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123130993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}