Modeling Narrative Complexity and Collective Intelligence with Twin Peaks
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Summary:
After a few weeks in a row of pretty easy watching (The Office, Roseanne, Easy A), I have my students watch the opening two episodes of Twin Peaks in my introductory level popular culture course (English Textual Studies 145: Reading Popular Culture). To say they were perplexed is to put it lightly. I screen the 105 minute pilot (“Northwest Passage”) and the 45 minute second episode (“Traces to Nowhere”). The screening ended to a blanket of silence and then an almost collective “What the…?”