"All of this is surrounded by darkness": A Night at the Movies

Abstract

<p>This thesis is concerned with Robert Coover's A Night at the Movies as an exploration of the construction of fictions in contemporary society through the intersection of writing and cinema, reader and spectator. The role of memory in the retention of these constructions is discussed in the interest of seeing how particular translations of filmic codes into writing operate, and what might be the effect of these translations.</p>