Sp16-AMSTUD-10Q-01 : Dystopian California: Imagining the Golden State in Disaster and Science Fiction Film. 2016 Spring

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Abstract/Contents

Course Description: Dystopian California examines the ways the Golden State has been popularly imagined both historically as the Land of Promise and more recently as the land of apocalypse in science fiction and disaster films. Through this lens, we?ll be exploring anxieties articulated through images of natural disaster, environmental degradation, urbanization and urban decay, invasion (both viral and ?alien?), societal collapse, overpopulation, and nuclear holocaust ? as well as the tenacity of the human spirit. We?ll be discussing conceptions of survival and the ways these films both articulate societal fears and help to neutralize them. More broadly we will discuss how these films metaphorically address, through the loss of innocence, the possibility of establishing a truly Utopian California ? the Golden Land of Opportunity promised to us ? that had been unattainable or lost in the melee of postmodernity

Sponsor	Stanford University. Department of American Studies
Teacher	McCormack, Kara

Subject	Stanford University
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Course ID	Sp16-AMSTUD-10Q-01
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/dd936gp0890
Location	SC1454
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