Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks

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SURREALISM AND TWIN PEAKS: THE ORIGIN OF DAVID LYNCH AND MARK FROST´S GREAT WORK

By Karla Loncar

David Lynch has been particularly responsible for the lasting allure of the show. In other words, the series would be inconceivable without the content-based and formal characteristics typical of Lynch’s films: his love for the contrast between the eerie and the comical, light and dark, popular and exquisite; the preoccupation with the motif of evil (in a seemingly idyllic American small town); the fascination with the subconscious turmoil of characters; the richness of varying, often disturbing, sounds; and modern methods of filmmaking, particularly visible in the series’ pilot and the individual episodes directed by Lynch himself.

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VERTIGO Y LOST HIGHWAY: DOBLES FEMENINOS EN ALFRED HITCHCOCK Y DAVID LYNCH

Por José Carlos Cabrejo

El cine de Alfred Hitchcock trató el tema de la doblez de muchas maneras. Los personajes que interpretan Otto Kruger y Joseph Cotten en Sabotaje (1942) y La sombra de una duda (1943) respectivamente, esconden detrás de su apariencia cálida y encantadora sus lazos con un mundo sórdido y criminal. Podemos encontrar variaciones de este tipo de doblez en Psicosis (1960) y Frenesí (1972), cintas en que asesinos en serie se enmascaran detrás de la imagen de un tímido administrador de motel o de un afable verdulero.

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