THE PLANTATION IN APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX. SURVIVALS AND HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF A GENRE

This article explores the recovery of a fundamental genre of American cultural history, “the Plantation Novel”, in the sequence of Francis Ford Coppola's new cut of Apocalypse Now Redux (2001). By ironically reclaiming some of its commonplaces, Coppola succeeds in attributing new significance t...

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Main Author: González, R. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 2022
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