He’s Still Here by Penny Spirou

“…A week into its release in the US, director Casey Affleck confessed to The New York Times (Cieply 2010) that the film was in fact a mockumentary. …”
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A Guiding Line? Rethinking the Road in American Post-Apocalyptic Narratives by Cécile DO HUU

“…This study delves into this evolution, analyzing pessimistic yet realistic post-apocalyptic road novels and films like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, John Hillcoat’s adaptation, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier, and Casey Affleck’s Light of my Life. Drawing from Bakhtin’s chronotope theory and the transmedial nature of the road narrative, it investigates how the road operates as a space-time for individual travel tales and the American national narrative, undergoing shifts in mobility, history, and narration. …”
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