SOURCE: George, Diana Hume. “Lynching Women: A Feminist Reading of Twin Peaks.” In Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks, edited by David Lavery, pp. 109-19. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995.

In the following essay, George provides a feminist analysis of the representation of violence against women in the television series Twin Peaks.

Should I call this a double-breasted approach? Laura Palmer had a double, so that's at least four breasts, but the show fairly crawled with creepy sex and grand tetons. They didn't eat with forks—the brothers with the yuppie ice cream names were devotees of primary process. Everything longer than it was wide was phallic in the surreal Lynchscape. Who but Lynch could give saddle shoes the impact of spiked heels? And father-daughter incest was definitely in. Should we really have eaten all that luscious Frosting on the cake baked by the Lynchmob?

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