h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=217791 Potential topics include, but are by no means limited to: - The Force as alternate lifestyle in American malaise - Who’s Your Father: Re-imaging the Family in the Latter Twentieth Century - Buycentennial: Materialism and Mass-Marketing a Galaxy - Best-in-Heavens or Clouded City: Lando Calrissian and Race in Eighties America. - Joining the Revolution: Youth activism and the Anti-establishment movements - No Bras in Space: Star Wars and Second Wave Feminism - More Machine than Man: Transhumanism and Cyborg Studies - Evil Empire: SDI and the Cold War Rhetoric - Heirs to the Empire: Fan Culture in the Inter-Trilogy Decade - For All Ages: Droids, Ewoks, and The Battle for Endor - How Democracy Dies: 9/11 and the End of the Republic - CGI-Face: Jar Jar Binks and Racial Ambiguity - There was No Father: Millennial Expectations and Religiosity in Episode I - Animated Cloned Wars and Postmodern Narratives - The “Fan-Dumb” Menace: Spoofs, Satire, and Holiday Specials - Force is Strong with Us All: Expanding the Subcultures
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 21:52:01 +0000