Subject: Analogy with feuilletons From: richardh@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Richard Hancock) Date: 1991-03-15, 08:25 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks A chaste hero fixated on doughnuts and tripping on loose ends is nothing new, says Biancamaria Fontana. He has been around for at least a century KIN PEAKS Is Twin Peaks a truly post-modern work, as some critics have ar- gued? An interesting ex- periment maybe but one which exploits conventional rather than literary and vi- sual strategies. The director has in fact (deliberately or unwittingly) translated into the language of cinema and of the television soap a tradi- tional genre which flour- ished within European liter- ary culture up to the beginning of our centruy: the feuilleton. [To be continued...]