Disaster Movies - The Cinema of Catastrophe

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Keane Klappentext Stephen Keane's history of the disaster genre offers a detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic, and The Day After Tomorrow. He looks at the ways in which disaster movies can be read in relation to both contextual considerations and the increasing commercial demands of contemporary Hollywood. In this second edition, he adds new material regarding cinematic representations of disaster in the wake of 9/11 and an analysis of disaster movies in light of recent natural disasters. Keane continually reworks this previously unexplored genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Savage Seventies 2. Transitions: Action and Disaster 3. The Sense of an Ending 4. Surviving Disaster Filmography Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Keane
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2006
• EAN: 9781905674039
• ISBN: 978-1-905674-03-9
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 200 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Short Cuts; Short Cuts (Wallflower); Shortcuts; Short Cuts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre