HUM 375 - Twin Peaks and Postmodern Television

3 Credit(s)

This course examines the intersections between popular culture and postmodernism, reading the television series Twin Peaks as a literary text. By studying Twin Peaks as narrative art and as cultural phenomenon, the course aims to give the student a sophisticated understanding of the differences between consumable and readable culture as well as critical strategies for interpreting the nuances in this wonderfully strange and mysterious text.