The NRG sessions began last month on Wednesday 14 October with the first of two sessions showcasing international research.
Drs Sam Goodman and Julia Round presented papers they delivered at the 2015 Popular Culture Association Conference (details below), which was held in March 2015 in New Orleans.
The second of these PCA sessions will take place on Weds 9 December (4pm, W241), when Drs Richard Berger and Peri Bradley will present their PCA papers.
Julia Round – Revenant Landscapes in The Walking Dead
This paper considers The Walking Dead comic (Kirkman, Moore and Adlard, Image 2003-present) and television series (AMC, 2010-present) and argues that although the two series rely on similar imagery, they are distinct in their use of space. This contradicts established industry, audience and creator discourses surrounding this text and offers a counter-argument to the popular perspective that comics can be used as simple storyboards for their television adaptations.
Sam Goodman – Made Safe From Time’s Iniquity: Genre, Identity, and Post-Millennial Tensions in Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
By drawing focus on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, particularly the Black Dossier (2003), this paper will argue that in a post-millennial era characterised by New Labour and ‘Cool Britannia’, Moore depicts a vision of an alternate 1950s New Elizabethan Britain in order to critically explore the formation of contemporary British nationalism, and to consider how history and popular culture are implicated in such a process.