{"product_id":"twin-peaks-the-return-part-8-by-jeff-wood-9798765121757","title":"Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA minute-by-minute analysis of one episode (Part 8) of David Lynch's \u003ci\u003eTwin Peaks: The Return\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch has been written about the work of David Lynch and existential fear in relation to Americana and the American Dream-as-American Nightmare in terms that are circular and artistically self-referential—or \u003ci\u003eLynchian.\u003c\/i\u003e But with Part 8 of his most recent work, the 2017 series \u003ci\u003eTwin Peaks: The Return,\u003c\/i\u003e Lynch locates his singular and unsettling visual vocabulary within an epic historical context: the world’s first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith reference to the 1983 television phenomenon \u003ci\u003eThe Day After\u003c\/i\u003e, Lynch’s work is newly situated in a resurgence of works reassessing the legacy of Trinity. Among them: HBO’s \u003ci\u003eChernobyl\u003c\/i\u003e, Trevor Paglen’s \u003ci\u003eTrinity Cube,\u003c\/i\u003e Cormac McCarthy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStella Maris\u003c\/i\u003e, and Christopher Nolan’s \u003ci\u003eOppenheimer.\u003c\/i\u003e With David Lynch’s Part 8, a cultural circuit is completed, from the idiosyncratic and personal—or Lynchian—to the shared space of what theorist Paul Virilio describes as “cosmic fear”—or an emergency of social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter placing the work in this specific context, this book examines every minute of Lynch’s Part 8 from \u003ci\u003eTwin Peaks: The Return\u003c\/i\u003e, minute by minute—a thrilling endeavour due to the radical landscape that Lynch sets forth: a landscape of astonishing cinematic extremities, from the maddeningly abstract, absurd, and meticulous, to the lush, and terrifying. The director presents an uncanny intimacy that is an achievement even among the most critically lauded works in Lynch’s catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428370989292,"sku":"9798765121757","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798765121757.jpg?v=1774496817","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/twin-peaks-the-return-part-8-by-jeff-wood-9798765121757","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}