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Sperb, Jason. "Removing the Experience: Simulacrum as an Autobiographical Act in American Splendor." Biography 29. (2006): 123–39. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
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BibTeX citation key: Sperb2006
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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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