Stam states that Genette’s architextuality, “has to do with an artist's willingness or reluctance to characterize a text generically in its title.” Based (as the credits state) on Orlean’s book, the title of Adaptation sets out its different terrain. It is not the film of the book that character Kaufman insists he must write. It is a knowing parody of self-conscious works of art organised in paradoxical and transtextual dialogue with itself, other works and readers.
Did I really say that? I'm happy enough with the essay. We'll see how I do later.
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