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dc.contributor.advisor | Szeman, Imre | en_US |
dc.contributor.advisor | Rethmann, Petra | en_US |
dc.contributor.advisor | Goellnicht, Donald | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Sully, Justin A. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:52:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:52:36Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2011-08-11 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2011-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/5820 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 6837 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2148528 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10800 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>This dissertation investigates the significance of demographic discourses and epistemologies over the last three decades of the Twentieth Century through the emergence of global film culture. Adopting a materialist reading of Serge Daney’s notion of a critical cine-demography, it explores three ways in which moments of population crisis over this period can be interpreted through film.</p> <p>An experiment in method as much as an alternative periodizing account of late capitalist culture, the core chapters trace the evolution of a demographic imaginary through three, chronologically organized, case studies in the articulation of population crisis since the early 1970s: (1) the fear of overpopulation that reaches a frenzied pitch in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s; (2) anxiety about absolute population decline, situated in the context of Eastern Europe in the late 1990s; and (3) the emerging problem of population aging at the close of the century, centered in Western Europe, Japan and North America. In each of these cases, the dissertation identifies a corresponding archive of films that are marked at the level of their formal and narrative construction by the pressure of these demographic and discursive formations.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Cinema | en_US |
dc.subject | Culture | en_US |
dc.subject | Crisis | en_US |
dc.subject | Decline | en_US |
dc.subject | Demography | en_US |
dc.subject | Film and Media Studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Film and Media Studies | en_US |
dc.title | CINE-DEMOGRAPHIES: POPULATION CRISIS IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY FILM CULTURE | en_US |
dc.type | dissertation | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | English and Cultural Studies | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
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