The Cinema of David Lynch; American Dreams, Nightmare Visions

The Cinema of David Lynch; American Dreams, Nightmare Visions. Edited by Erica Sheen and Annette Davison. Wallflower Press. 2004

' Lynch's work tells a story of artistic and professional struggle which neither concludes nor allows for easy conclusions'.

chapter 6
Laura and Twin Peaks; Postmodern Parody and the Musical Reconstruction of the Absent Femme Fatale - John Richardson p 78

'Clearly more than the mystery of how she was murdred and by whome, a large part of what Twin Peaks tick in dramatic and specifically audio-visual terms was precisely the tantilising and apparently unbridgeable distance created by Lynch between Laura and viewing and listening subject - a distance created sustainted by the fragmentary visions and sounds of the female protagonist provided, which, in the words of Michael Choin 'served everyone as a prop for their own projections and fantasies' (choin 1995: 144-5)

discusses how twin peaks is film noir. have a detective, 'in search of a rational explanation to irrational world'. it has flashbacks and VO, from agent cooper. it has shifts in pov.  - 'where a woman is seen from several view points'. the true personality of the feeme fatale is shruded in mystery.                               

Chapter 7
Twin Peaks, Weak Language and the Resurrection of Affect by Sheli Ayers, p 93
'through a surrealist dream logic , this passionate living room allegory explores an uncanny cycle of consumption'/  

lots of contrasting fire/ice, good/evil/ visible/invisible
'through accumulation, the world of Twin Peaks divides and subdivides between realms of darkness and light'.
'within the allegorical palimpsest, heightened emotion often accompanies abstaction' Discusses how colour within the film is exaggerated to link spaces within the series. 'over time, these more or less subtle visual clues form a subjective code through which spaces may be distinguished or deliberately confused'.

twin peaks quote, when cooper is speaking to leland , head in his lap "into the light..wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotless intellect is like a transparent vacuum without circumference or center. Leland, in this moment know yourself and abide in that state. Look to the light, Leland. Find the light."

The scene refers to popular western ideas of death as an 'ascendance' to light.