Abstract:
In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the television series Twin Peaks represents
the feminine through a textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Using reader-response
theory, I seek to show that while the series conforms to patriarchal media
conventions such as the male gaze and narrative stereotypes such as the fairy tale
princess, there also exists within the text resistance to these normative conventions,
which provides pleasure for a feminist audience. The concept of the ideological
problematic, in which a text can be shown to hold multiple and contradictory
meanings, is applied to a close textual analysis of the character Audrey Home.
