Sunday, 22 April 2012 07:57
American Horror Movie and Negative Equity
At a Seminar yesterday, hosted by the IADT in Dun Laoghaire, eight academics from English, US and Irish universities gave papers on the treatment by the Media of the Recession and the way it presents gender issues in movies such as The Company Men and Wall Street.
The final paper addressed the issue of negative equity and how it can trap people in an unhappy homelife, the couple unable to break free from each other and move on.
The storyline of the American Horror Movie is the relocation of a family at the request of the patriarch (the father)to the West Coast of America. He insists the family will live happily ever after in the house of their dreams.
However, it turns out that the house is haunted by the souls of the many people who had been murdered there.
They end up in a living hell where the one thing harder then separating was "living together".
The manner in which the family is trapped, unable to move on, becomes a symbol for the many thousands who are trapped in Negative Equity across the US and indeed the world - in many ways its own "Horror Story".
The way this is treated in the media hepls us to recognise the grief and hardship being sugffered by ordinary people experiencing the Recession. This is only a flavour of the many papers delivered in this stimulating and progressive gathering.
It was attended by representatives of the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Chamber of Commerce, including members of the Women in Business group. The even was supported by the Dun Laoghaire County Enterprise Board and the Dalkey Business Group.
Well done to Paula Gilligan of the IADT for putting the day together.
The final paper addressed the issue of negative equity and how it can trap people in an unhappy homelife, the couple unable to break free from each other and move on.
The storyline of the American Horror Movie is the relocation of a family at the request of the patriarch (the father)to the West Coast of America. He insists the family will live happily ever after in the house of their dreams.
However, it turns out that the house is haunted by the souls of the many people who had been murdered there.
They end up in a living hell where the one thing harder then separating was "living together".
The manner in which the family is trapped, unable to move on, becomes a symbol for the many thousands who are trapped in Negative Equity across the US and indeed the world - in many ways its own "Horror Story".
The way this is treated in the media hepls us to recognise the grief and hardship being sugffered by ordinary people experiencing the Recession. This is only a flavour of the many papers delivered in this stimulating and progressive gathering.
It was attended by representatives of the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Chamber of Commerce, including members of the Women in Business group. The even was supported by the Dun Laoghaire County Enterprise Board and the Dalkey Business Group.
Well done to Paula Gilligan of the IADT for putting the day together.
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