| Name: | Adriana |
| Surname: | Neagu |
| Institutional Affiliation: | Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj |
| Email: | adrianacecilianeagu@gmail.com |
| Title of Paper / Poster Presentation: | Empowered Women – the Last Man: Global Cinema and Gendered Apocalypticism |
| Abstract (about 50 words): | Abstract:
The presentation is part of an enquiry into dystopian representations of women in current, global cinematic production. It seeks to address the ‘cultural logic’ and the new dynamics of gender roles constitutive of the condition of globality with particular emphasis on post-apocalyptic renditions. Pitted against the horizon of expectation of what is increasingly profiling itself as the ‘posthumanist age’, it sets out to explore the new poetics of female sensibility within the structures of the global imagination. Positing that apocalypticism is the prevalent mode of globality, I argue for the relevance of the congeniality between global cultural production and the so-called ‘global order’, the ‘cultures of apocalypse’ and ‘apocalyptic culture’. I observe ‘global malaise’ and the dominants of the dystopian global imagination in the mainstream productions The Hunger Games (2012) and Divergent (2014).
Key words: apocalypticism; dystopia; globality; global cinema; gender roles; female sensibility; the global imagination; The Hunger Games: Divergent.
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| Session: | S1 |