Mandag 6. juni 10.15-12.00, auditorium E 0101: Genre Consciousness in Ibsen Parodies
This lecture discusses the way print and performance parodies of Ibsen’s contemporary dramas composed in his lifetime in Scandinavia and Germany register the cultural mediation of his various generic innovations. When focusing on the use of the subtitle in Ibsen’s published titles and their parodies, the nature of Ibsen’s provocation becomes more apparent: a dismantling of a prescriptive generic classification system and a transition into more modernist models of writing, reading, and viewing.
Tirsdag 7. juni 10.15-12.00, auditorium E 0101: Spoiled! Traumatic Time Structures in Recent American Serial Television
This lecture examines the relationship between narrative “spoilers” and the traumatic news of the real world, especially the social media environment of post-9/11 America. In period serial dramas like Mad Men, which have flourished as a genre since 2007, viewers are given a carefully measured “knowledge drama” in which traumatic information and timekeeping are tightly connected and managed for narrative pleasure. Period dramas enact the condition of not-knowing in a repetitive, serial manner that allows viewers to ask a basic question that has become infinitely more problematic in post-9/11 America: “Is it better to know, or not to know?”
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