Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Towards a Palimpsest

Chapter 1: Ever Died? Ever Failed? No Matter. Die Again. Fail Better. Immanence and Transcendence In Twin Peaks (With Apologies To Samuel Beckett)

Chapter 2: Reasons to be Tearful: Snapshots of Lynchian Excess

Chapter 3: Driven to Distraction: Hitching a Ride along the Lynchian Highway

Chapter 4: Pierced by the Past: Filmic Trauma; Remembering and Forgetting

Chapter 5: ‘It is Happening Again’: Experiencing the Lynchian Uncanny

Chapter 6: The Return of the Repressed: INLAND EMPIRE, DavidLynch.Com, and the Re-emergence of Film Painting

Conclusion: Stitching up Lynch

Bibliography

Index