The Right Heroes: Historical Worldbuilding in the Illiberal Semi-Peripheries

April 16, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Art Auditorium

Dr. Anikó Imre, School of Cinematic Studies, University of Southern California, will discuss how the global media economy’s mobility and flexibility derives from a supply-chain logic that serves large multinational companies such as Netflix, Disney and Amazon, and relegates peripheral locations to be service providers. Border states of the E.U. have emerged as global service media industry hubs as they’ve shifted towards right-wing, populist nationalisms. This talk investigates how economic peripherality on the global stage and illiberal populism on the domestic stage is managed in state investment in historical film and television and embodied by heroic figures who unite patriotic values of the past with entrepreneurial skills of the present.


Event Sponsor
LLEA & SCA, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Hawaiʻi International Conference on Film, Literatu, 808 956-4163, lleamail@hawaii.edu,

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