"This book 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 toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. This book examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, different kinds of documentaries, and auteurist-realist cinema. Moving across and beyond critical and industrial categories that inform thinking about cinema, it contends that different…mehr
"This book 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 toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. This book examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, different kinds of documentaries, and auteurist-realist cinema. Moving across and beyond critical and industrial categories that inform thinking about cinema, it contends that different approaches to film style can push us to imagine disaster in distinct ways, with distinct ethical connotations"--
Simon R. Troon is Lecturer in Film, Screen and Culture at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His writing on cinema and the environment has been published in Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Media International Australia, Studies in Documentary Film and elsewhere.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Cinematic Imagination of Disaster Ethics of Encounter for a Disastrous Epoch Responsibility and Realism Tracing the Fault Lines of Film Form Part I: Hollywood and its Shadow 1. Hollywood's Disaster Movies Disaster as Encounter in Genre Films from the 1950s to the '70s From the 1990s into the Anthropocene Avengers: Age of Ultron and Disaster Franchises San Andreas Heroic Realism 2. Strange Disaster in American Independent Cinema Strange Weather as Disastrous Encounter in Short Cuts and Melancholia Safe: Face to Face with Strange Materiality Strange Apocalypse in Donnie Darko The Way the World has Ended: Southland Tales Part II: Two Documentary Views of Anthropogenic Disaster 3. The View from Above Objectivity, Truth, and Realism in Environmental Documentary The God Tricks of An Inconvenient Truth Before the Flood: Complicity and Bad Conscience 4. The View from a Body A Disaster Documentary Realism of Subjectivity and Situation The View from a Body of Water: There Once Was an Island The View from On an Unknown Beach Part III: A Neorealist Legacy for Eco-Catastrophe 5. Realist Auteurs after the Disaster Auteurism and Response-ability: Kiarostami, Haneke, Diaz The Long Take: Opening the Environment Sound and Silence: Resonance as Encounter Seers of Disaster 6. Coda: "The Fall of the Regular Fall of the Beat, the Disaster Again" The Quiet City from 9/11 to Covid-19 Disintegration Loop 1.1 and the Disaster Again and Again Bibliography Index
Introduction: The Cinematic Imagination of Disaster Ethics of Encounter for a Disastrous Epoch Responsibility and Realism Tracing the Fault Lines of Film Form Part I: Hollywood and its Shadow 1. Hollywood's Disaster Movies Disaster as Encounter in Genre Films from the 1950s to the '70s From the 1990s into the Anthropocene Avengers: Age of Ultron and Disaster Franchises San Andreas Heroic Realism 2. Strange Disaster in American Independent Cinema Strange Weather as Disastrous Encounter in Short Cuts and Melancholia Safe: Face to Face with Strange Materiality Strange Apocalypse in Donnie Darko The Way the World has Ended: Southland Tales Part II: Two Documentary Views of Anthropogenic Disaster 3. The View from Above Objectivity, Truth, and Realism in Environmental Documentary The God Tricks of An Inconvenient Truth Before the Flood: Complicity and Bad Conscience 4. The View from a Body A Disaster Documentary Realism of Subjectivity and Situation The View from a Body of Water: There Once Was an Island The View from On an Unknown Beach Part III: A Neorealist Legacy for Eco-Catastrophe 5. Realist Auteurs after the Disaster Auteurism and Response-ability: Kiarostami, Haneke, Diaz The Long Take: Opening the Environment Sound and Silence: Resonance as Encounter Seers of Disaster 6. Coda: "The Fall of the Regular Fall of the Beat, the Disaster Again" The Quiet City from 9/11 to Covid-19 Disintegration Loop 1.1 and the Disaster Again and Again Bibliography Index
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