Na postmodernistycznej autostradzie. „Urodzeni mordercy” po latach
On a Postmodern Highway. „Natural Born Killers” Years Later

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to narrative techniques used by Oliver Stone in "Natural Born Killers" (1994). The author describes how Stone undermines the convention of traditional road cinema and the scheme of initiation journey. In addition, Birkholc argues that the narrative of the film, full of intertextual, stylistic and genre references, is subjectively motivated by the “sensitivity” of the characters, which was shaped by neo-television. Stone uses a very special form of focalization, which is emphasizing the media mediation of the character’s consciousness and – thus – questioning the image of a free and independent subject. The contradictory strategy of the creator, trying to describe the fundamental cultural and social changes, makes the "Natural Born Killers" an extremely intriguing record of the ambivalent experience of American culture in the era of neo-television.

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