Abstracts of Papers
Bert Bobock
Conspiracy Theories After 9/11 - An Emerging Subculture Undermining Authority as a Result of the New Media Age: Facts or Fiction?
(Session VI)
Jennifer Evans
"Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace":
Revisiting the Bondage of Slavery in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
(Session I)
Moritz Ege et al.
White Trash
(Session III)
Chris Flor
"You Are Seeing Demons When There Is Only Life":
Symptoms of Collective Paranoid Schizophrenia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(Session V)
Michael Funk
Vampires and Crackheads:
Drug Demons in American History and Culture
(Session III)
Helen Holtom
Doing Away With Weak Western Forms:
The Search for a Black Cultural Identity in Amiri Baraka's 'The Dutchman'.
(Session I)
Philipp Kneis
Opening Address: Nightmares in American Culture
(Opening)
Philipp Kneis
The Wilderness Masters the Colonist.
Nature, Culture, and the Truth Out There
(Session IV)
Jasper Nicolaisen
'One Book To Rule Them All Out':
The Popular Reception of J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and the Nightmare of Normalization
(Session II)
Kathrin Stoffregen
Blue Velvet - a Love Story or a Story of Love and Violence?
(Session IV)
Claudia Schwarz, Mira Blumhagen
"Requiem for a Dream" - Deconstruction of the American Dream in recent American cinema productions.
(Session V)
Simon Strick
Keynote Address
(Opening)
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