INNC Coming of Age in the long 1950s’ America: Literature, Culture, and Film

June 19, 2024, Zoom. All times are in CET. All are welcome to attend.

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10.00 Welcome: Annika J. Lindskog (Lund University) and Sanna Melin Schyllert (Nantes Université)

 

10.15 Keynote: Dr Tamlyn E. Avery (University of Queensland)

11.15 – 13.00 Panel 1:  The Microcosms and Macrocosms of America

Chair: Annika J. Lindskog

Dorka Tamas (University of Groningen): Post-war American Nonconformism and the Witch Figure in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

Joseph Gratale (American College of Thessaloniki): The Long 1950’s and Imperial America in Ron Kovic’s Born on the Fourth of July

Florian Pichon (University of Montreal)​​: In the Ruins of the Nuclear Ideal: Innocence Lost and Survival in Davis Grubb’s The Night of the Hunter and Charles Laughton’s movie adaptation

13.00–14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.45 Panel 2: Expressions of Gender and Sexuality 

Chair: Sanna Melin Schyllert

Ruben Cenamor Pons (Independent): A New Sensitive Man Emerges: Alternative Masculinities in Robert Anderson’s Tea and Sympathy (1953)

Kess Carpenter (Wilfrid Laurier University): “What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?”: Gender, Heterosexuality, and Reader Letters in Playboy Magazine, 1953-1963

John Öwre (Lund University): Neo-Romanticism and Enchantment in the Cinema of the Long Fifties: Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Night Tide (1961)

15.45 – 16.00 Closing remarks