Intertextual Encounters in American Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture
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Book Description
Intertextual encounters occur whenever an author or the author's text recognizes, references, alludes to, imitates, parodies, or otherwise elicits an audience member's familiarity with, other texts, however texts are defined. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West use the fiction of Horatio Alger, Jr., as an intertext in their novels, The Great Gatsby and A Cool Million. Ira Gershwin uses the tradition of the classic American love song as an intertext in his "What Can You Say in a Love Song (That Hasn't Been Said Before)." Callie Khouri and Ridley Scott use the buddy-road-picture genre as an intertext for their Thelma & Louise. In all these cases, intertextual encounters take place between artists, between texts, between texts and audiences, between artists and audiences. Ranging from the 1830s to the 1990s and from the canonical American novel to Bugs Bunny and Jerry Seinfeld, such encounters and the communities they create are Michael Dunne's subjects in this book.
About the Author
Michael Dunne, Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, is the author of Metapop: Self-referentiality in Contemporary American Popular Culture, Hawthorne's Narrative Strategies, and numerous scholarly articles dealing with American fiction, film, and popular culture. His current research involves the unrelated fields of the Hollywood Musical and Calvinist humor.
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Intertextual Encounters in American Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture,Michael Dunne,Bowling Green University Popular Press,0879728477,American fiction,Americas (North Central South West Indies),Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology / Anthropology,History,History and criticism,History: American,Intellectual life,Motion pictures,Popular culture,United States
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