David Lynch and the American West

Rob E. King is an associate librarian at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library and a doctoral student in English at Texas Tech University. He has contributed to 25YL, Blue Rose Magazine, Twin Peaks Unwrapped podcast and published in New American Notes Online and the West Texas Historical Review. Christine Self, Ph.D. has worked in higher education for nearly 20 years. Her research interests include family involvement in higher education, the experiences of women in higher education, women's and gender studies, and sexual violence prevention in higher education. She lives in Lubbock, Texas and serves as the director for Family Outreach and Engagement at Texas Tech University, Parent & Family Relations. Robert G. Weaver is the manuscript archivist within Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, where he coordinates making both physical and digital archival collections available. He served as editor of the West Texas Historical Review for the West Texas Historical Association.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Foreword: A Long Way from the World: David Lynch and the American West

John Thorne

Introduction

Rob E. King, Christine Self and Robert G. Weaver

Part I: Regionalism

Considering Regionalism in the Films of David Lynch: An Interview with Andréas Halskov

Rob E. King

“To the hellhole it is now”: The Pastoral and Industrialization in Eraserhead

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Watch and Listen to the Dream of Time and Space: Historiography, Geography and Twin Peaks

Rebecca Heimel

The Wood for the Trees: Regional and Anthropocene Signals in the Pacific Northwest Forests of Twin Peaks

Andy Hageman

Dark Americana: Identity, Frontiers and Heterotopias in David Lynch’s Dreams

Marko Lukić

Part II: Indigeneity and Representation

A Discussion on the Treatment of Indigeneity in Twin Peaks: An Interview with Geoff

Rob E. King

“It has something to do with your heritage”: Indigenous Arts in Twin Peaks

David Titterington

“Very old, but always current”: Indigenous Geographies in Twin Peaks

Garrett Wayne Wright

“I am the FBI”: American Identity in Twin Peaks

Molly O’Gorman

Part III: Road Narrative and Genre

Thoughts on the American Southwest in Film and Television: An Interview with Monica Montelongo Flores

Rob E. King

Once Upon a Time in Rancho Rosa: Reading Twin Peaks Season 3 as a ­Neo-Western

Franck Boulègue and Marisa C. Hayes

I’m Going West, Diane: Masculinity and the Cowboy Archetype in the Works of David Lynch

Andrew T. Burt

David Lynch’s Desert Frontier: Road Movie, Desert Horror and Western Liminality

Thomas Britt

The Western Road as Metaphor for American Instability in David Lynch’s Lost Highway

Mark Henderson

Re-Imagined West in the L.A. Trilogy: A Heritage of California Fiction and American Trauma

Rob E. King

Appendix: Character and Actor Guide for David Lynch Films in This Collection

About the Contributors

Index