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The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Uncanny Doubles in Twin Peaks (2020)
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Yates, M. (2020). The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Uncanny Doubles in Twin Peaks. In A. Szanter (Ed.), Policing the Monstrous: Essays on the Supernatural Crime Procedural (29-45). McFarland

Co-created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, Twin Peaks (1990-2017) adhered to and resisted the conventions of procedural dramas on television. It did so by making familiar conventions seem unfamiliar in an intertextual pastiche of soap opera, detective... Read More about The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Uncanny Doubles in Twin Peaks.