Department of American Culture and Literature Presents<\/p>\n
An Interdisciplinary Symposium: \u201cEnds and Aftermaths in the Popular Imagination\u201d<\/p>\n
Date: Thursday, 9 May 2019
\nTime: 17:00 to 18:30
\nPlace: G-160<\/p>\n
Speakers:<\/strong> Mihaela Harper, Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas \u201cLike an afterimage in the disturbed air\u2019: Simile in Cormac McCarthy\u2019s Joshua Bartlett, American Culture and Literature \u201c\u2018I want to open another door\u2019: Snowpiercer and the Slow Violence of Climate Change\u201d<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong> Department of American Culture and Literature Presents An Interdisciplinary Symposium: \u201cEnds and Aftermaths in the Popular Imagination\u201d Date: Thursday, 9 May 2019 Time: 17:00 to 18:30 Place: G-160 Speakers: Kara McCormack, American Culture and Literature \u201cFrontier Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Renewal in the Post-Apocalyptic Western\u201d Mihaela Harper, Program in Cultures, Civilizations, [\u2026] <\/p>\n
\nKara McCormack, American Culture and Literature \u201cFrontier Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Renewal in the Post-Apocalyptic Western\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe Road and Davide Longo\u2019s The Last Man Standing\u201d<\/p>\n
\nApocalyptic and post-apocalyptic narratives give expression to anxieties about possible futures as well as critique the values and ideologies that might have led us to that future in the first place. These papers examine the ways filmmakers and fiction writers have utilized form, language, and apocalyptic imagery to tackle some of the most important
\nissues of our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"