"Sylvan Village and Film Noir City"

The new issue of the Threepenny Review features an essay taken from Greil Marcus's The Shape of Things To Come: Prophecy and the American Voice. The subject is Twin Peaks, the series, the songs, the movie and the book, and the range - for those who read Marcus, this hardly comes as a surprise - is quite wide: Hawthorne, the Blue Sky Boys, several films noir and the novelists that created their iconography, all before Marcus returns to the beginning of David Lynch's tale, the body of Teresa Banks floating down the river as Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me opens.

Evocative Americana, via Alison Willmore at the IFC Blog. Earlier: Mark Rozzo's review of the book for the Los Angeles Times.

Posted by dwhudson at September 13, 2006 12:13 PM