Cinematic Encounters with Disaster: Realisms for the Anthropocene

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster 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 that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. It examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, different kinds of documentaries from the US and else...