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Harmony Korine’s “Break from Reality”: Spring Breakers as Candy-Coloured Neon Noir
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 4, December 2016
- pp. 89-105
- 10.1353/mos.2016.a640853
- Article
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Abstract:
Basing the analysis on Jacques Lacan’s notion of enjoyment, this essay argues that with his fifth feature Spring Breakers, filmmaker Harmony Korine has stepped beyond the reality principle to which his previous films adhere in order to create a neon-coated, oneiric film noir.