Vanishing Points
Post-televisual Brushstrokes: 'Twin Peaks: The Return' and 'Too Old to Die Young' from the Perspective of “Pictorial Time”
Published 2022-01-30
Keywords
- Painting,
- Contemporary Serial Fiction,
- Time,
- Twin Peaks,
- The Return
- Too Old To Die Young,
- David Lynch,
- Nicolas Winding Refn,
- Jean-François Lyotard. ...More
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Calvo Gens, L., & Meijide Casas, S. (2022). Post-televisual Brushstrokes: ’Twin Peaks: The Return’ and ’Too Old to Die Young’ from the Perspective of “Pictorial Time”. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (33), 173–188. https://doi.org/10.63700/914
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Abstract
Just as they did in the 1990s, David Lynch and Mark Frost made an unexpected return to the small screen in recent years that called into question the prevailing artistic and narrative forms of contemporary serial fiction. Understanding Nicolas Winding Refn and Ed Brubaker’s Too Old To Die Young (Amazon Prime Video: 2019) as a successor in certain respects to Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch & Mark Frost, Showtime: 2017), this article offers a comparative analysis based on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and, especially, Jean-François Lyotard, related to “pictorial time”, with the aim of reappraising these forms of seriality, exploring the treatment of art and time in two series with unorthodox ways of conceiving plot continuity and shot duration, very far from the (still hegemonic) standards established by “quality TV”.
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