Jm tyree biography

          Tyree works as an Associate Professor in the Cinema Program at VCUarts, and has served as a Writer-at-Large and Contributing Editor at Film....

          Vanishing Streets reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London.

          J.M. TYREE
          in conversation with BENNINGTON REVIEW

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          RACHEL YANKU

          What made you want to start writing critical essays about film, and what made you specifically want to write about the return of Twin Peaks?

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          TYREE

          I should probably mention that I don’t differentiate between criticism and creativity because criticism must be a creative act. It’s all a way of trying to understand ourselves and our world. For me writing about art is an act of discovery, like visiting a cathedral.

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          5. It’s like a pilgrimage. The meaning of the pilgrimage is partly about the pilgrim, partly about the journey, and partly about the place you’re discovering. You want to learn all about it - you try to find out everything that’s known about what you’re seeing - but I think you wind up learning more about yourself.

          Twin Peaks is a good case study. It takes me back to my own teen-aged years, when I watched the show with my mom, who was a big fan. For viewers of my age group, Twin Peaks: Th