Antonio Sanna completed his PhD at the University of Westminster, UK. He has published over sixty essays and reviews in international journals and in a variety of edited collections. Heis co-editor (with Adam Barkman) of A Critical Companion to Tim Burton (2017) and A Critical Companion to James Cameron (2018), and editor of Pirates in History and Popular Culture (2018).

The first book-length study of the third season of the cult program that changed the face of television in the early 1990s

Offers and interdisciplinary, in-depth and erudite introduction to a study of Twin Peaks: The Return

Written with scholars of Television Studies, Film Studies, Popular Cultural Studies, Philosophy, and Surrealism Studies readers alike; as well as fans of the series and David Lynch's work

Part I. In the Real World: History, Technology and Fandom.- 1. Entering the World of Twin Peaks (Antonio Sanna).- 2. Is It Happening Again? Twin Peaks and 'The Return' of History(Matthew Ellis and Tyler Theus).- 3. Extraterrestrial Intelligences in the Atomic Age: Exploring the Rhetorical Function of Aliens and the 'Alien' in the Twin PeaksUniverse(Elizabeth Lowry).- 4. Lucy Finally Understands How Cellphones Work: Ambiguous Digital Technologies in Twin Peaks: The Return and its Fan Communities(Jeffrey Fallis and T. Kyle King).- 5. 'The owls are not what they meme': Making Sense of Twin Peaks with Internet Memes (Brigid Cherry).- 6. 'Is it about the bunny? No, it's not about the bunny!': David Lynch's Fandom and Trolling of Peak TV Audiences(David McAvoy).- Part II. In the Lodges: Subjectivity and (Un)Realism.- 7. 'Between Two Mysteries': Intermediacy in Twin Peaks: The Return (Thomas Britt).- 8. 'My Log has a Message For You,' or, Vibrant Matter and Twin Peaks: On Thing-Power and Subjectivity (Anthony Ballas).- 9. 'Here's to the pie that saved your life, Dougie:' The Weird Realism of Twin Peaks (Ryan Coogan).- 10. Movement in the Box: The Production of Surreal Social Space and the Alienated Body (Joel Hawkes).- 11. How Mark Frost's Twin Peaks Books Clarify and Confound the Nature of Reality(Donald McCarthy).- 12. Copy of a Copy of a Copy: Theorizing the Triplicity of Self and Otherness in Season Three of Twin Peaks (Kwasu David Tembo).- Part III. Inside the Psyche: Trauma, Dreams and Music.- 13. From Lost Highway to Twin Peaks: Representations of Trauma and Transformation in Lynch's Late Works (Timothy William Galow).- 14. Kafka's Crime Film: Twin Peaks: The Return and the Brotherhood of Lynch and Kafka (Adam Daniel).- 15. Who is the Dreamer? (Michael Potter and Cam Cobb).- 16. Is it the Wind in the Tall Trees or Just the Distant Buzz of Electricity?: Sound and Music as Portent in Twin Peaks' Season Three (Andrew T. Burt).- 17. 'Listen to the Sounds': Sound and Storytelling in Twin Peaks: The Return (Kingsley Marshall and Rupert Loydell).- 18. 'I'll point you to a better time/A safer place to be': Music, Nostalgia and Estrangement in Twin Peaks: The Return (David Sweeney).