• DOI:10.1080/10350330408629682
Corpus ID: 145369643

Bourgeois Myth versus Media Poetry in Prime-time: Re-visiting Mark Frost and David Lynch's Twin Peaks

@article{OConnor2004BourgeoisMV,
  title={Bourgeois Myth versus Media Poetry in Prime-time: Re-visiting Mark Frost and David Lynch's Twin Peaks},
  author={T. A. O'Connor},
  journal={Social Semiotics},
  year={2004},
  volume={14},
  pages={309 - 333}
}

• T. A. O'Connor
• Published 2004
• Sociology
• Social Semiotics

This article explores IVIark Frost and David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks from the perspective of the two dominant world-views it dramatized. The world-view based in bourgeois myth can be described as employing significations that are always present in naturally and mythically transcendent terms. The other world-view is generated by media poetry, which is a virtual mode of signification that re-mediates linguistic/audio/visual phenomena with contingent capacities for meaning. That… Expand