I’ll See you in 25 Years: The Return of Twin Peaks [Special Issue of Senses of Cinema journal]
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 9y7z4
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Senses of Cinema Inc.
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue-79/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output comprises a special issue of Senses of Cinema journal, ‘I’ll See you in 25 Years: The Return of Twin Peaks’ (issue 79), co-edited by Goddard, Kirsty Fairclough, and Anthony Smith. Goddard’s contribution includes a single-authored article, ‘Telephone, Voice Recorders, Microphones, Phonographs,’ and co-authored introduction. The special issue stems from a conference Goddard co-organised in 2015 at the University of Salford.
The editors timed the online publication in a leading film and media journal to coincide with the much-anticipated production of the third season of Twin Peaks. The issue posed key questions about television aesthetics and their transformations from the network era to the digital era of cable and internet-distributed television. In accordance with the idea of this return, the editors conceived the issue as a complex interdisciplinary reconsideration of both the original series and its delayed continuation. It features contributions by leading scholars of the series.
Goddard’s article drew on work on media archaeology, sound studies and cult film and TV to propose a media archaeological reading of the sonic technologies in Twin Peaks. It argues that rather than operating as mere props, these sonic devices operate as portals between worlds in the Twin Peaks universe and are as vital to the aesthetics of the series as characters, genre or narrative. This perspective was a new one that had never been applied to the series.
Goddard’s co-written introduction stresses the unique nature of Twin Peaks in both transforming television in the early 90s and ushering in the era of what Mittell has called “complex TV.” Complementing this special issue was Goddard’s co-editing of another journal special issue on Twin Peaks, published in Series (2016), which focuses on fan practices that remediated the original series and kept its influence alive and relevant in the context of digital practices.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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