124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Beyond the Sea: Cinematic Islands in Continental Fantasies

Beyond the Sea: Cinematic Islands in Continental Fantasies

AHA Session 183

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Manchester Ballroom E (Hyatt)

Chair:

Sarah Scheiner-Bobis, Stanford University

Papers:

Why Do We Need Islands? Insular Time and Space on the Silver Screen
Massimo Perinelli, University of Cologne

Are We Not Men? Islands of Fear and Hope in Hollywood Horror Movies, 1930s–50s
Olaf Stieglitz, Muenster University

Paradise, Hawaiian Style: Fantasies of Hawaii in Postwar America
Pablo Dominguez, Heidelberg University

Islands—Biological Paradises of Artificiality
Christiane Koenig, University of Cologne

Comment:

Vanessa Smith, University of Sydney

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