2-4 Septembre 2024, Milan (Italie)
Date limite de soumission : 3 mai 2024
SERCIA – Société pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche du CInéma Anglophone
Keynote speakers: Naomi Mandel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Pawel Frelik (University of Warsaw)
In an interview about the end of the last millennium, James Ballard argued that Science Fiction (SF) had created the greatest popular literature of the 20th century. The imagery that we saw in the cinema, television, advertising and other media was the most powerful imagery produced in the last hundred years. By the end of the century, the genre had done its job and it was dead. This hypothetical death has aroused a widespread interest in the many ways in which it generated a collective social imaginary through popular images and stories that, in Ballard’s words again, had “created the psychology of the last decades of the 20th century.” This debate positioned the genre at the centre of academic discussions. The result was that SF, previously seen as a minor genre, became an important lens to understand not only the 20th century but the new millennium as well. Throughout the 20th century, SF territorialised the future and, by extension, familiarised people with a large number of technologies and phenomena that have now become standard in our current mediascape and social context. In other words, by territorialising the future, the genre had built the present.
Le séminaire de recherche mensuel de la LPCM, “Dans l’atelier des chercheur·se·s en littératures populaires et culture médiatique”, vise à favoriser les rencontres et les échanges entre les chercheur·se·s qui se spécialisent dans l’analyse des cultures populaires et médiatiques, quel que soit leur ancrage disciplinaire (littérature, sciences de l’information et de la communication, sociologie, histoire, économie, musicologie, humanités numériques…) et leur objet d’étude (littérature, bande dessinée, littérature jeunesse, cinéma, séries télévisées, productions transmédiatiques, musique, jeux vidéo, jeux, figurines, images…).