there 's elvis as a talisman for kinky sex in david lynch 's `` twin peaks , '' elvis as a `` revolutionary man of beauty '' in the works of intellectual bad- girl camille paglia , elvis as the absent central character in jim jarmusch 's brilliant film `` mystery train `` and a hundred other incarnations -- a veritable feast of kings . ; serious treatment ; few of the true believers -- the predominantly working-class fans who have consumed the elvis myths whole -- will like this book .