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Heroes, “The Butterfly Effect” (3.02).
The conference The Politics of Superheroes: Renegotiating the Superhero in Post 9/11 Hollywood Cinema began today at Yale University. It is taking place in a room close to Harold Bloom’s office at the Whitney Humanities Center. I am presenting a paper on the style of Heroes (2006-) tomorrow afternoon. Here is the conference programme:
Keynote Speaker:
Scott Bukatman (Stanford University), “Look! Up on the Screen!: The Poetics of Superheroes”
Panel 1A: Batman Reloaded
Tara Ghai (University of Exeter), “Clown or Terrorist: Depictions of the Joker in Batman Films Pre- and Post-9/11”
Gerry Canavan (Duke University), “Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the Joker, Capitalism, and Schizophrenia”
Panel 1B: “Low” Culture and High Tech
Cary Jones Elza (Northwestern University), “Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys?: Technology and Perception in Batman Begins”
Jon Hogan (Syracuse University), “Understanding Iron Man: An Examination of the Relationship between Technology and Humanity in a Popular Comic Book Series”
Panel 2: Incredibles +
Ramzi Fawaz (George Washington University), “Eternal Homecoming: Cold War Nostalgia and the Crisis of the Family Body in The Incredibles”
Chris Jaynes (New York University), “It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Bob Parr: Narrative Discourse and the Post 9/11 Super-hero in The Incredibles”
Michael High (Stony Brook University), “The Superhero Film: 9/11, Melodrama, Justice”
Panel 3: Post-Classical Hollywood Action Films
Dan Hassler-Forest (University of Amsterdam), “From Flying Man to Falling Man: Post-9/11 Superhero Narratives”
Ryan Vu (Duke University), “Cinematic Superman and the Ideology of Participation”
Paul Johnson (University of Exeter), “Of Gods (or) Monsters: Superman Returns”
Jean-Guy Ducreux (Nancy-Université), “Mirror Effects and Bad Conscience in Superhero Movies Since 9/11”
Panel 4: Alternative, International and Near-Superheroes
Jacob Brogan (Cornell University), “Fantasies of Forgetting”
Emily Perez (University of Southern California), “Twilight: America, Vampires, and the Perils of Self-Hating Superheroes”
Sandra Kang (New York University), “Post Hero or Post-9/11: Chinese Face Superhero with Western Values”
Panel 5: Superheroic Aesthetics and Genres
Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Kent), “Super Style: Heroes and Television Aesthetics”
Marianna Martin (University of Chicago), “In a World Where More is More: Superheroes and Genre Play”
Yoshi Nakazawa (Seattle University), “Inculcating Aesthetics and Slaying Monsters: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Aesthetics in Education”
