Disaster movies the cinema of catastrophe /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Wallflower,
2006.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Short cuts (London, England) ;
6. |
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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) |
| Summary: | "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."--Description from EBSCO |
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| Item Description: | "First published in Great Britain in 2001"--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (132 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231850278 0231850271 |