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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Into the Wild: The New Unreadable America
Author : Edward Gallafent
Published in: Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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My approach in this chapter is to begin by looking briefly at the preoccupations that connect the two previous films written and directed by Sean Penn, The Indian Runner (1991) and The Crossing Guard (1995).1 Having established readings of elements of those films, I will move to an account of Into the Wild, one that will consider it as a work in which some of Penn’s recurrent interests reappear in related or transformed ways, leaving aside for the moment most matters to do with writing. Once I have laid out its structure in those terms, I will review the film through the perspective of writing and reading, and discuss the ways in which this informs its meanings.