| Autor: |
Foy, Matthew M. |
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Ohio Communication Journal; Feb2017, Vol. 55, p96-108, 13p |
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This essay considers the midnight movie cult phenomenon The Room and its iconic in-theater audiencing ritual as an anecdotal representation of a community employing cultural performance to enter into dialogue with a text producer (here, The Room auteur Tommy Wiseau) and engage in struggle over the meaning of a contested cultural text. Through the lens of Victor Turner's model of social drama, the author considers discourses surrounding the controversial history of The Room (which represents the breach and crisis of Turner's model) and demonstrates ways in which the discourses and gestures performed by audience members during the ritual constitute redressive action and should be understood as symbolic rejection of Wiseau's public assertions of modernist authorial control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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