A Screen in between: Intertextuality, Consciousness and Interpersonal Communication in Don DeLillo

• Autores: Laura Álvarez Trigo
• Localización: Thresholds and Ways Forward in English Studies / coord. por María Lourdes López Ropero, Sara Prieto García-Cañedo, José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo, 2020, ISBN 978-84-1302-079-2, págs. 43-50
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • In Don DeLillo’s Americana (1971) and Point Omega (2010) the ubiquity of mass media manifests in the characters’ desire to represent their lives and consciousness on screen, with the hope of faithfully communicating it. In both these novels, film is not only present in the form of references to directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Alfred Hitchcock, but also through protagonists who embark on the production of films focused on representing someone’s self. This paper explores how, in such processes, characters’ consciousness borrows from audiovisual media, as well as how said medium helps in communicating someone’s subjectivity. For this purpose, it will analyze how the style through which the characters understand their own stories reflects mass media language and logic, and thus presents consciousness through the lenses of a media-saturated society