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"A Suspended State": The Body of an American as Cinematic Doppelgänger
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 52, Number 1, March 2019
- pp. 121-137
- 10.1353/mos.2019.0008
- Article
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Abstract:
John Dos Passos uses the montage technique of the cinematic doppelgänger as the means to replot his experience of WWI outside the linear logic of wartime laws and propaganda. Alternatively, he plots wartime's continuity by dissolving its presence—embodied by the Unknown Soldier—into the lives of survivors.