Annual Students Conferences at Humboldt: Conferences
 
Picturing America. Domestic and Global Aspects of US Media Culture


Abstracts of Papers

Dominik Bertram
Big Brother is All Around

Eddie Bruce
Surviving September 11th or Snapshots in the Dark? A Critical Consideration of two Professional Photographs as Portraits of Denial

Mara Dettmann, Susan Eckelmann
American Exceptionalism - Holocaust Exceptionalism? An Analysis of the Public Response to the Exhibition "Mirroring Evil"

Danijela Djordjevic
The X-Files and Paranoia

Philipp Kneis
Communicating Democracy: Entering the American Republic Through the West Wing?

Michael Lattek
Abduction & Adoption: Searching for the "Western Contamination" of The Big Lebowski

Manuela Mangold
From Imagination to Image. The Dissection of the Body in CSI and Nip/Tuck

Richard Martin
Fictional Representations of the American Criminal Justice System

Florian Stenschke
USS Media: Enter/tainment - Enter/America?

Heike Toewe
The Use of Spectatorship in Spike Lee's Bamboozled