David Lynch’s Los Angeles: Control and Liberation through the Cinematic Image by Jakob Jurisch

“…In Lynch’s famous TV series Twin Peaks (1990-2017), the kitsch aspect of a local small-town murder mystery is connected to a surreal and ungraspable larger world of primordial darkness and incomprehensible nightmares, where consciousness and unconsciousness constantly inform upon one another, one cannot exist without the other. …”
Get full text

Sino-noir of Serial Killers and Dismemberments by Sheng-mei Ma

“…The argument then concludes with the 16-episode TV series Who Is the Murderer capitalizing on the triple entendre of “ba” for the father, the hegemon/bully, and the end. …”
Get full text