{"199041":{"#nid":"199041","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Weedman Presents Paper, \u0022The Last Summer of Innocence: Narrative Intrusion and National Trauma in Losey and Pinter\u2019s The Go-Between\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe paper, by second-year Brittain Fellow Christopher Weedman,\u0026nbsp;part of the \u0022British Cinema: Crossing Borders of Culture, Time and Genre\u0022 panel, argues that \u003Cem\u003EThe Go-Between\u003C\/em\u003E (1971), the final collaboration between director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter, engages a traumatic variation of the \u003Cem\u003Ebildungsroman\u003C\/em\u003E motif as a means of allegorizing the decline of optimism in the British youth generation at the end of the 1960s. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhereas the traditional \u003Cem\u003Ebildungsroman\u003C\/em\u003E ends with a child achieving positive psychological and social maturation, \u003Cem\u003EThe Go-Between\u003C\/em\u003E\u2019s young Leo Colston is stunted irrevocably through this process. Not only does Leo\u2019s loss of innocence recall the fates of the young protagonists in Losey\u2019s pre-blacklist Hollywood films \u003Cem\u003EThe Boy with Green Hair\u003C\/em\u003E (1948) and \u003Cem\u003EThe Big Night \u003C\/em\u003E(1951), but also Pinter\u2019s employment of a fragmented narrative structure (featuring two parallel narratives set during the end of the Victorian era and post-World War II austerity) suggests that the past haunts the socio-political conditions of Britain at the end of the 1960s. These three eras in British cultural history share a key commonality: they were all pivotal historical conjunctures in which there was tension about whether or not Britain should adhere to the past or move in a new direction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeedman has published articles on the films of Joseph Losey, roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Howard Hawks in journals such as \u003Cem\u003EQuarterly Review of Film and Video\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003ESenses of Cinema\u003C\/em\u003E and is currently writing a book on the film collaboration of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Southwest\/Texas Popular \u0026 American Culture Association 34th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 15, 2013"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2013-03-12 17:16:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:48","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"199031":{"id":"199031","type":"image","title":"Christopher Weedman","body":null,"created":"1449179934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:58:54","changed":"1475894851","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:31","alt":"Christopher Weedman","file":{"fid":"196513","name":"christopher_weedman_0.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/christopher_weedman_0_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/christopher_weedman_0_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":28584,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/christopher_weedman_0_0.png?itok=HQg0abN6"}}},"media_ids":["199031"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1270","name":"conference"},{"id":"2402","name":"film"},{"id":"48271","name":"popular culture"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:christopher.weedman@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Echristopher.weedman@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}