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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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Abstract |
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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