The Cineautistic Detective: Steve Erickson’s “Zeroville” and the New Hollywood Novel
This article proposes a reading of Steve Erickson’s Zeroville (2007) as a post-noir mystery novel in which the ‘cineautistic’ detective Vikar, haunted by the ghosts of his Hollywood myths, brings out the cultural meaning behind the fatal date 1969. Going beyond the tropes of the Hollywood Novel, as...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Iperstoria |
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1085 |