Matthew Pangborn
Biographic Data
| ID | 9237250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Pangborn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Pangborn |
| SIGNATURE | PANGBORN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“There Is No Sanctuary”
The article explores Michael Anderson’s slick sf thriller Logan’s Run as an imaginative thought experiment playing out the debate on the 1970s “energy crisis.” Released in the anxious year of the United States’ bicentennial, the film depicts both the computerized utopia of the 1970s’ “technologists” and “neo-Malthusian” fears of nuclear war, pollution, and overpopulation. What the two sides have in common is the central problem to so much of the …
Lessons in “Bad Love”
This article examines Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) as an example of film noir's exploration of the affective dimension of early oil-regime America. Drawing on the work of energy-humanities scholars, the article finds the film, and by extension the genre, providing a much-needed ground-level perspective on the efforts of industry and government to stimulate oil consumption by creating desires in a public struggling with the inherent paradoxes of…
The Birth of Homo Colossus
Although Raymond De Young points out the current response to energy descent he terms localization “is not globalization in reverse”, the writers of modernity’s energy ramp-up used many of the same techniques De Young proposes for adapting to the downslope of M. King Hubbert’s fossil-fuels peak. Among these is pre-familiarization, the construction of mental models that “help people to feel at home in a place they have not yet inhabited.” Long befo…
The Arabian Romance of America in Poe's “Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade”
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The Arabian Romance of America in Poe's “Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade”
The Birth of Homo Colossus
Although Raymond De Young points out the current response to energy descent he terms localization “is not globalization in reverse”, the writers of modernity’s energy ramp-up used many of the same techniques De Young proposes for adapting to the downslope of M. King Hubbert’s fossil-fuels peak. Among these is pre-familiarization, the construction of mental models that “help people to feel at home in a place they have not yet inhabited.” Long befo…
Lessons in “Bad Love”
This article examines Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) as an example of film noir's exploration of the affective dimension of early oil-regime America. Drawing on the work of energy-humanities scholars, the article finds the film, and by extension the genre, providing a much-needed ground-level perspective on the efforts of industry and government to stimulate oil consumption by creating desires in a public struggling with the inherent paradoxes of…
“There Is No Sanctuary”
The article explores Michael Anderson’s slick sf thriller Logan’s Run as an imaginative thought experiment playing out the debate on the 1970s “energy crisis.” Released in the anxious year of the United States’ bicentennial, the film depicts both the computerized utopia of the 1970s’ “technologists” and “neo-Malthusian” fears of nuclear war, pollution, and overpopulation. What the two sides have in common is the central problem to so much of the …
Art (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work)