1999 and the irruption of theory
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https://doi.org/10.30827/tnj.v2i2.9600Mots-clés :
The Matrix, Harry Potter, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Millennium, 1999, postmodernismRésumé
The paper reviews key fictions which appeared in 1999: the first Matrix film, the third Harry Potter novel and the fourth television series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The paper contends that one of the immediate effects of these texts, each a paradigm of the postmodern aesthetic, was to promote the growth of crossover academic-popular cultural studies. It is argued that important though this secondary literature is, the immediate political and cultural context of these texts’ times needs to remain in sharper focus if we are to assess them properly.
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