The USA South from a surrealist perspective. @zola and the representation of the “Florida Dream”

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.43.044

Keywords:

@zola, adaptation, twitterature, South, surrealism

Abstract

The film @zola, directed by Janicza Bravo and distributed by A24, is a 2020 film adaptation of A’Ziah “Zola” King’s Twitter thread from 2015. It is the first film adapting a twitterary text. The increasing interest in post-literary adaptation, transmediality and interaction but, also, the representation of the South in contemporary North American cinema, crystalize in this example. The fusion of both media, audiovisual and (post-)literary, is a manifestation of the collaborative process in the new trends of adaptation: from twitterature (Aciman & Rensin, 2009), bringing together authorship and reception, to cinema (Bravo, 2020). Given all that, the aim of this paper is to define the whole new paradigm of the USA South stereotype in the cinematographic medium, while exposing the specific rupture of North and South dynamics today through the example of film @zola.

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Published

16-12-2023

How to Cite

Lea, D. (2023). The USA South from a surrealist perspective. @zola and the representation of the “Florida Dream”. Boletín GEC, (32), 42–66. https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.43.044