Cherry Pie Wrapped in Barbed Wire: Fire Walk With Me as a Horror Movie

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-74
Author(s):  
Lindsay Hallam
Keyword(s):  
Gain Control ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Twin Peaks ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Genre Conventions ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Town

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.

scholarly journals THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

c i n d e r ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Interactive Narratives ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Butterfly Effect ◽  
Genre Conventions

Interactive narratives—such as story-driven, choice-based video games—provide a space for playing with tropes and genre. Players are invited to collaborate in the creation of these stories, and can thus exercise their agency to interact with and subvert, harmful tropes and genre conventions. Here I specifically explore the use—and potential subversion—of problematic conventions regarding character death, such as the conflation of queerness and tragedy commonly known as ‘Bury Your Gays’ as explored in Life is Strange (DontNod 2015), and Carol J. Clover’s concept of ‘The Final Girl’ in the horror genre as explored in Until Dawn (Supermassive 2015).

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Hallam
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Initial Reaction ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Accurate Representation ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Twin Peaks ◽  
Take Back

When David Lynch's film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, a prequel to the television series Twin Peaks, premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, it was met with met with outright hostility. Subsequent reviews from critics were almost unanimously negative, and many fans of the show felt betrayed, as their beloved town was suddenly revealed as a personal hell. Yet in the years since the film's release, there has begun to be a gradual wave of reappraisal and appreciation, one that accelerated with the broadcast of Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017. What has been central to this reevaluation is the realization that what Lynch had created was not a parody of soap opera and detective television but a horror movie. This book argues that the horror genre aids Lynch's purpose in presenting the protagonist Laura Palmer's subjective experience leading to her death as the incorporation of horror tropes actually leads to a more accurate representation of a victim's suffering and confusion. The book goes on to explore how the film was an attempt by Lynch to take back ownership of the material and to examine the initial reaction and subsequent reevaluation of the film, as well as the paratexts that link to it and the influence that Fire Walk with Me now has on contemporary film and across popular culture.

BEYOND BUTRINT: THE ‘MURSI SURVEY’, 2008

2016 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 269-297
Author(s):  
Richard Hodges ◽  
Erika Carr ◽  
Alessandro Sebastiani ◽  
Emanuele Vaccaro
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Mediterranean Landscapes ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
History Of ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Town

This article provides a short report on a survey of the region to the east of the ancient city of Butrint, in south-west Albania. Centred on the modern villages of Mursi and Xarra, the field survey provides information on over 80 sites (including standing monuments). Previous surveys close to Butrint have brought to light the impact of Roman Imperial colonisation on its hinterland. This new survey confirms that the density of Imperial Roman sites extends well to the east of Butrint. As in the previous surveys, pre-Roman and post-Roman sites are remarkably scarce. As a result, taking the results of the Butrint Foundation's archaeological excavations in Butrint to show the urban history of the place from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period, the authors challenge the central theme of urban continuity and impact upon Mediterranean landscapes posited by Horden and Purcell, inThe Corrupting Sea(2000). Instead, the hinterland of Butrint, on the evidence of this and previous field surveys, appears to have had intense engagement with the town in the Early Roman period following the creation of the Roman colony. Significant engagement with Butrint continued in Late Antiquity, but subsequently in the Byzantine period, as before the creation of the colony, the relationship between the town and its hinterland was limited and has left a modest impact upon the archaeological record.

scholarly journals Labin ili izvedba undergrounda kao jedan od modusa otpora izolaciji/periferiji

2021 ◽  
pp. 485-497
Author(s):  
Suzana Marjanić
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Solid Rock ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Industrial Site ◽  
Swimming Pools ◽  
Polluted Sites ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Town ◽  
Cultural Niche ◽  
Real City

Using the example of the town of Labin in Istria, I demonstrate how isolation, the so-called periphery, can also serve as an expression of resistance in a cultural niche. The collective Labin Art Express (L.A.E., initiated by Dean Zahtila, late Krešimir Farkaš, Graziano Kršić) is the initiator of the fundamental L.A.E. project Underground City XXI ‒ independent underground Labin cultural city as an alternative to the existing above-ground, heteronomous Labin, i.e. the creation of a real city 150 m below the earth’s surface ‒ in underground halls and tunnels, carved in solid rock, connecting Labin, Raša, Plomin and Rabac, with streets, bars, galleries, swimming pools, playgrounds for children, shops, restaurants, the Museum of Mining and Industry of Istria. Thereby we can compare Labin in terms of urbanity and anthropology with the town of Katowice, which in 2018 was selected to host the most significant UN Climate Change Conference, following the 2015 Paris Agreement. Katowice were chosen as one of Europe’s most polluted sites due to the exploitation of coal i.e. the transition of the aforementioned town from a mining and industrial site to a modern industrial, economical, technological and cultural centre.

Different people, different wishes? Can heterogeneity of the population cause more and different kinds of economic activities?

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
Alei E. Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The Town

- The objective of the article is to empirically test the hypothesis that the heterogeneity of an urban population influences the creation and the development of the businesses and economic activities (‘organisational diversity') of a city. More specifically, the heterogeneity of a population is measured in terms of religious pluralism, while organisational heterogeneity concerns the different economic activities, both manufacturing and services, present in a city. The influence of religion on economic demand is based on the ‘new paradigm' (Christiano et al., 2002), according to which individuals who belong to different religious groups have different values with regard to education, social ambition and attitude to work. As a consequence, they tend to choose different professions and prefer different economic activities. The empirical analysis, which is conducted on the town of Zwolle in northern Holland in the period 1851-1914, tests the hypothesis and finds a real and significant impact of religious pluralism on the economic structure of the town.

Weimar, 1991; Weimar/Röcken, 1994 Zarathustra as Educator? To the Nietzsche Archives

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Rodden
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ◽  
The Public ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
First Time ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Last Man

“Silberblick.” Bright moment, lucky chance. A sunny day in Weimar, November 1991. Hedwig, 38, waits solemnly for me in the town square still known as Karl Marx Platz (formerly Adolf Hitler Platz). A spirited, voluble woman, Hedwig has been eager to show me the cultural splendors of her hometown—the Goethehaus, the Schillerhaus, the Liszthaus, all lining the Frauenplan in the center of old Weimar. But today she is reluctant; today, warm morning rays beaming down upon us, Hedwig seems reserved as we stride along the Schillerstrasse toward the outskirts of town. Today our destination is Humboldtstrasse 36, the Villa Silberblick, home of the Nietzsche Archive, which opened in May to the public for the first time since 1945. Hedwig hands me a May issue of Die Zeit. “The Banished One Is Back!” blazons the headline: The reopening of the Archives has been the cultural event of the year in Weimar. As we walk, I muse on the significance of the return to eastern German life of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900): the author of notorious neologisms and catch phrases such as the Will to Power, the Übermensch (Superman), the Antichrist, master and slave morality, the blond beast, the free spirit, the last man, eternal recurrence, “God is dead,” “Live dangerously!” “Become hard!” “philosophize with a hammer,” and “beyond good and evil”; the writer who inspired thinkers such as Heidegger, artists such as Thomas Mann, and men of action such as Mussolini; the philosopher exalted by the Nazis and reviled by the communists. No discussion of eastern German education “after the Wall”—and the ongoing political re-education of eastern Germans—would be complete without reference to the return of the writer regarded as the most important educator in Germany during the first half of this century. Indeed, Nietzsche als Erzieher (Nietzsche as Educator) was the title of a popular book in Wilhelmine Germany written by Walter Hammer, a leader of the Wandervögel (birds of passage) youth movement.

Creation, the Fall, and the Regime of the Passions

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-188
Author(s):  
Gerard O'Daly
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
The Body ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Universe

The chapter discusses Augustine’s presentation in Books 11–14 of the origins of the two cities, heavenly and earthly. The focus is on the creation of the universe, the angels and the rebellion of some of them, and Adam, Eve, and the Fall. Specific themes include: Genesis exegesis; the elaboration of the history theme, with good and bad angels as ‘prologues’ to the two historical human cities; good and evil in the universe; angelic rebels and the nature of the will; death and resurrection; Platonist and Christian views on the body; Pauline flesh and spirit; emotions and passions; sexual desire in paradise and since the Fall; love of self and love of God, and the application of this contrast to the two cities.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

2019 ◽  
pp. 281-288
Author(s):  
John Billheimer
Keyword(s):  
Television Series ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

This chapter reviews the creation and content of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and describes the methods used by the director to sidestep censorship issues on and off camera. The show premiered on CBS in October 1955 and ran successfully in various forms for a decade, making Hitchcock the most recognized and richest director in the world. Hitchcock personally delivered introductions to each show and returned at the close to wrap up the proceedings and introduce a final ‘intrusive’ message from the sponsor. The director’s appearances brought continuity to the anthology series, and the dry, macabre humor of his introductions and wrap-ups, written by one man, James Allardice, kept the audience returning week after week. Hitchcock himself directed 18 of the 359 episodes in the series, and his wrap-up appearances helped to navigate the series around the shoals of the NAB Code. More than one-third of the series’ episodes focused on a protagonist who was a murderer and, given the series’ penchant for twist endings, the murderer appears to get off scot-free in many of these episodes, contrary to the NAB Code. To appease Code watchdogs, Hitchcock used his post-show wrap-up to assure viewers that, no matter what seems to have happened in the episode they just witnessed, the guilty parties were eventually punished for their crimes.

Baron, Dvora (1887-1956)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Jelen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Rare Exception ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Town

Dvora Baron, a major writer of the Modern Hebrew Renaissance, or the Tehiyah, was one of the only woman writers to gain recognition in the Hebrew literary canon of the period. Born on December 4, 1887 to the town rabbi of Ouzda, on the outskirts of Minsk, Baron was educated by her father and her elder brother in ways that were highly unusual for girls of her geographical, historical, and religious milieu at the turn of the twentieth century. Women and girls, not systematically educated in Hebrew texts, were largely unable to bring their Hebrew textual skills to bear in the creation of a modern Hebrew literary idiom. Baron was a rare exception and much of the scholarship on Baron’s literary corpus focuses on her unusual achievement as a woman in the Modern Hebrew literary arena.

scholarly journals Another approximation to the Spanish series Cuéntame cómo pasó: the special episodes

Matrizes ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Laura García Pousa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Television Series ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Franco Dictatorship ◽  
The Universe

The television series Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001-) employs both fiction and a documentar approach to create a telling portrait of the final years of the Franco dictatorship in Spain and the transition of the country to Democracy through a protagonist family named Los Alcántara (The Alcántara). From the more than 250 broadcasted episodes the object of analysis in this article is the episodes that are considered as special, those which investigate the cultural meaning of the era through the universe created in the series. This focus enables us to understand how the dramatic force of Cuéntame como pasó permits the creation of diverse and individual episodes, thanks to the continuous self-referential dramatic games at play.

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