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 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.
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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 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.
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Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe

Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe

by Stephen Keane
Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe

Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe

by Stephen Keane

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781905674039
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 09/18/2006
Series: Short Cuts
Edition description: second edition
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Savage Seventies
2. Transitions: Action and Disaster
3. The Sense of an Ending
4. Surviving Disaster
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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