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Sperb, Jason. "Removing the Experience: Simulacrum as an Autobiographical Act in American Splendor." Biography 29. (2006): 123–39. Added by: joachim (15/05/2010, 02:52) Last edited by: joachim (15/02/2015, 11:43) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed BibTeX citation key: Sperb2006 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "American Splendor", Adaptation, Autobiography, Film adaptation, Pekar. Harvey, Postmodernism, USA Creators: Sperb Collection: Biography |
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| Attachments | URLs http://muse.jhu.ed ... v029/29.1sperb.pdf |
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This article articulates how American Splendor’s filmmakers deploy postmodernity and the seemingly antithetical logic of the simulacrum as the central means of documenting the real-life experiences of Harvey Pekar. Paradoxically, the film also attempts to reveal how these experiences necessarily continue to exist outside the simulacrum, in an affective realm.
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