Removing the Experience: Simulacrum as an Autobiographical Act in American Splendor
Removing the Experience: Simulacrum as an Autobiographical Act in American Splendor
Sperb, Jason,
2006-06-28 00:00:00
<p>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.</p>
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Removing the Experience: Simulacrum as an Autobiographical Act in American Splendor
<p>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.</p>
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