Disaster Movies

The Cinema of Catastrophe, second edition

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by Stephen Keane

Type: Didactic
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
Keywords: disaster films
Publishing date: 2006
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Collection: Short Cuts
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 144 pages
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

1-905674-03-1
978-1-905674-03-9

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Stephen Keane is lecturer in film at the University of Leeds, Bretton Hall Campus. He is also author of the forthcoming CineTech: Film, Convergence and New Media.

Press Reviews:
The book offers a helpful starting point for an overview and study of the genre of disaster movies. Roslyn Weaver, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

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