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Public discourse in the U.S. about the socalled "War on Terror" has been defined by the contestation of the historical analogy used to characterize subjective historical experience. While official governmental and politically conservative metaphors focused on WW II, and the trope of the "greatest generation," the analogy between the present and the 1950s gained potential for political oppositionality. Popular culture aided in this discursive negotiation, providing a wide variety of texts that concretized these competing analogies. Consequently, the genres of science fiction and horror have seen, during the past eight years, a renewed interest in tropes typically associated with the 1950s. This includes not only remakes of specific films, but, more importantly, a form of technological and ideological update of '50s-style monsters, first and foremost among them the "giant creature." Revisiting giant creature movies from the '50s, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield (2008) illustrates how the underlying '50s analogy, despite a superficially endorsed oppositional potential, tilts toward a conservative political agenda.
Steffen Hantke has written on contemporary literature, film, and culture. He is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature (1994), as well as editor of Horror, a special topics issue of Paradoxa (2002), Horror: Creating and Marketing Fear (2004), Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945 (2007), and, with Rudolphus Teeuwen, of Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers, and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labor in Higher Education (2007). He teaches in the American Culture Program Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea.
Anmerkung: Herr Hantke ist Deutsch-Muttersprachler und wird den Workshop in deutscher Sprache halten. Der Workshop ist eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Sektion 10: Phantastische Welten
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