{"product_id":"9798765101506","title":"Cinematic Encounters with Disaster: Realisms for the Anthropocene","description":"Author: Troon, Simon R.\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798765101506\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 11 Jul 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 216 Format: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCinematic Encounters with Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e 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 elsewhere, and auteurist-realist cinema from Europe and Asia. Moving across and beyond critical and industrial categories that often inform thinking about cinema, this book contends that different approaches to film style can push us to imagine disaster in distinct ways, with distinct ethical connotations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFramed by contemporary concerns around the global climate crisis and the advent of the Anthropocene, questions about how films can best offer responses to historical exigency guide the book's explorations of spectacular 2010s blockbusters like \u003ci\u003eGravity\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eSan Andreas\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), environmental documentaries including the paradigmatic \u003ci\u003eAn Inconvenient Truth\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), post-disaster films by auteurs including Abbas Kiarostami and Lav Diaz, and more. Conceiving of disaster as intersubjective ethics between humans and nonhuman alterity     forces of nature, errant technology, monsters, ghosts, and other entities     it analyses how formal techniques and narrative strategies render encounters in which human protagonists are confronted with the threat of death and respond in ways that can be instructive for our planet's present juncture.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46631890878622,"sku":"UBD-9798765101506","price":209.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798765101506.jpg?v=1774311239","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798765101506","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}