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Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Role within the IdA
Membre du Bureau
Membre du Bureau
Membre du Bureau
Anglophone studies
Los Angeles, Urbanism, Museology, Film, Comic books
Charles Joseph is Associate Professor of U.S. Cultural Studies at Le Mans Université. His primary research focuses on Los Angeles as a highly autonomous symbolic space, whose identity’s shifts and turns rely on its own propensity for autophagy as much as its self-generated historicity.
He is now focusing on the processes of musealization of Los Angeles, after analyzing the oppositional culture of the Californian megalopolis that the work of Wanda Coleman presented to the world. Resistance of a voice against the omnipotence of the multimedia history of a cardboard Los Angeles canonized on film, it is today the seductive and yet hegemonic sirens of the contemporary art market that seem to compel the city.
He developed related interests in the structuring and influence of the Los Angeles-based entertainment industry (especially around the phenomenon of comic book films and TV series) and has published several chapters and articles in that perspective.