The Screenplay as Postmodern Literary Exemplar: Authorial Distraction, Disappearance, Dissolution Export

@article{citeulike:2027261, abstract = {The article focuses on the how of writing for the screen, examining it as a text-making practice that might help us, by example, to learn new ways of writing that make meaning through polyphony, juxtaposition, dialogical interaction, and the dissolution of the author function. As multiple writers disappear into the screenplays they write, albeit unknowingly and without community, they are doing more than manufacturing homogeneous clones, more than merely participating in a reified ritual of rote iteration in service to Theodor Adorno's relentlessly commodifying culture industry. They are making a newly engaging literary thing, something epistemologically diverse, unanchored, free flowing, floating, and authorless-an exemplar of how to make what Barthes calls "writerly texts" in the contemporary moment.}, author = {Kohn, Nathaniel}, citeulike-article-id = {2027261}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/4/489}, day = {1}, journal = {Qualitative Inquiry}, keywords = {authorship, literary, postmodern}, month = {December}, number = {4}, pages = {489--510}, posted-at = {2007-11-30 10:38:04}, priority = {2}, title = {The Screenplay as Postmodern Literary Exemplar: Authorial Distraction, Disappearance, Dissolution}, url = {http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/4/489}, volume = {6}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2027261 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2027261 N2 - The article focuses on the how of writing for the screen, examining it as a text-making practice that might help us, by example, to learn new ways of writing that make meaning through polyphony, juxtaposition, dialogical interaction, and the dissolution of the author function. As multiple writers disappear into the screenplays they write, albeit unknowingly and without community, they are doing more than manufacturing homogeneous clones, more than merely participating in a reified ritual of rote iteration in service to Theodor Adorno's relentlessly commodifying culture industry. They are making a newly engaging literary thing, something epistemologically diverse, unanchored, free flowing, floating, and authorless-an exemplar of how to make what Barthes calls "writerly texts" in the contemporary moment. IS - 4 JF - Qualitative Inquiry EP - 510 TI - The Screenplay as Postmodern Literary Exemplar: Authorial Distraction, Disappearance, Dissolution VL - 6 SP - 489 KW - authorship KW - literary KW - postmodern AU - Kohn, Nathaniel PY - 2000/12/01/ UR - http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/4/489 ER -