Cinematic Encounters with Disaster

Realisms for the Anthropocene

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvSimon R. Troon,David Martin-Jones

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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 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.Framed 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 Gravity (2013) and San Andreas (2015), environmental documentaries including the paradigmatic An Inconvenient Truth (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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-11
Mått164 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThinking Cinema
Antal sidor216
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765101506

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Introduction: The Cinematic Imagination of DisasterEthics of Encounter for a Disastrous EpochResponsibility and RealismTracing the Fault Lines of Film FormPart I: Hollywood and its Shadow1. Hollywood’s Disaster MoviesDisaster as Encounter in Genre Films from the 1950s to the ‘70sFrom the 1990s into the AnthropoceneAvengers: Age of Ultron and Disaster FranchisesSan AndreasHeroic Realism 2. Strange Disaster in American Independent CinemaStrange Weather as Disastrous Encounter in Short Cuts and MelancholiaSafe: Face to Face with Strange MaterialityStrange Apocalypse in Donnie DarkoThe Way the World has Ended: Southland Tales Part II: Two Documentary Views of Anthropogenic Disaster3. The View from AboveObjectivity, Truth, and Realism in Environmental DocumentaryThe God Tricks of An Inconvenient TruthBefore the Flood: Complicity and Bad Conscience 4. The View from a BodyA Disaster Documentary Realism of Subjectivity and SituationThe View from a Body of Water: There Once Was an IslandThe View from On an Unknown Beach Part III: A Neorealist Legacy for Eco-Catastrophe5. Realist Auteurs after the DisasterAuteurism and Response-ability: Kiarostami, Haneke, DiazThe Long Take: Opening the EnvironmentSound and Silence: Resonance as EncounterSeers of Disaster 6. Coda: “The Fall of the Regular Fall of the Beat, the Disaster Again”The Quiet City from 9/11 to Covid-19Disintegration Loop 1.1 and the Disaster Again and AgainBibliography Index