Cinematic encounters with disaster: realisms for the Anthropocene

"This book takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster an...

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1. Verfasser: Troon, Simon R. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2024
Ausgabe:First published
Schriftenreihe:Thinking cinema Volume 12
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Zusammenfassung:"This book takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. This book examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, different kinds of documentaries, and auteurist-realist cinema. Moving across and beyond critical and industrial categories that inform thinking about cinema, it contends that different approaches to film style can push us to imagine disaster in distinct ways, with distinct ethical connotations"--
Beschreibung:vii, 208 Seiten
ISBN:9798765101506
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