Polish Association for American Studies: 2018 Annual Conference

The present tumultuous era of political and economic changes, which engenders fractured culture and legitimates a regime of the spectacle, motivates people to turn to and draw on the past as a reservoir of potential visions of the future. This necessitates critical rethinking of the values and norms constituting contemporary American society. How have those recent challenges impacted and transformed American artistic sensibility? What novel yet nostalgic tendencies and phenomena have emerged in American cultural landscape?