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Out of Time: Temporal Performativity and Resistance in Popular American Film, Television, and Theater.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Out of Time: Temporal Performativity and Resistance in Popular American Film, Television, and Theater./
作者:	Johnston Aelabouni, Meghan.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	317 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-03A.
標題:	Religion. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28320356
ISBN:	9798535551616

Out of Time: Temporal Performativity and Resistance in Popular American Film, Television, and Theater.
Johnston Aelabouni, Meghan.

Out of Time: Temporal Performativity and Resistance in Popular American Film, Television, and Theater. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 317 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Denver, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation argues that religious world-making in popular culture can reveal and resist hegemonic times. Taking as my primary case study the United States in the 2010s, particularly the shift from the Obama to the Trump era, I analyze cultural constructions of time-as sacred history, destiny, and "the times"-that reflect and shape national identity and belonging in the American imagined community. In this context, such temporal constructions have privileged whiteness and heteronormative masculinity, positioning those who embody or approximate this norm as "of the times," while also displacing BIPOC, women, and queer people as "out of time." I posit time as a material and mediated aspect of culture performed by bodies in normative and non-normative ways. Such temporal performativity, I argue, can reify hegemonic norms, but it can also expose and disrupt the constructed nature of these norms in acts of liberative resistance.My project places theories of religion, media, and culture in critical conversation with an analysis of particular examples of larger trends within the popular culture of and about American times in the 2010s. I examine the performative anachronism of time travel narratives (in Timeless, Outlander, and Doctor Who), the re-presenting of past onscreen or onstage worlds through revivals and reincarnations (in Roseanne/The Conners and Star Wars), and history as improvisational memory performance (in Hamilton: An American Musical). Through textual/visual, contextual, and audience analysis, I consider the temporal performativity of these examples and trends in connection to world-making: a relational activity, both conceptual and performative, that imagines and enacts the narrative, aesthetic, and ethical contours of what is most real, true, and important. Such world-making is religious insofar as it reflects and shapes the contours of the "really real" in the imagined community; and it also relies on teleological notions of time drawn from Protestant Christian theology, which remains culturally dominant in the religiously scrambled context of the twenty-first century United States. I argue that the religious world-making of the popular arts can function to reify cultural hegemonies; but such worlds can also be sites of liberative resistance to hegemonic times.

ISBN: 9798535551616Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.
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Imagined community

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