Extreme Weather and Global Media

Julia Leyda is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at Sophia University in Tokyo. She has published articles in Jump Cut, Television and New Media, American Quarterly, and Cinema Journal. She is the editor of Todd Haynes: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2014).Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of Film Studies at University College Dublin. She is the author, editor or co-editor of eight books, the most recent of which is Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (Duke University Press, 2014). She is co-editor of Television and New Media.

• Introduction: Extreme Weather and Global Media Julia Leyda and Diane Negra 1. Televising Superstorm Sandy: New Configurations of Poverty and Neoliberalism in Extreme Weather Coverage Jon Kraszewski 2. Eye of the Storm: CCTV, Surveillance and Media Representations of Extreme Weather Justin Carville 3. Picturing High Water: The 2013 Floods in Southeastern Germany and Colorado Susanne Leikam 4. "Blowtorch Britain:" Labor, Heat and Neo-Victorian Values in Contemporary UK Media Paula Gilligan 5. Post-Political Crisis Management: Representations of Extreme Weather in Swedish Media Annika Olsson 6. Disaster Data, Data Activism: Grassroots Responses to Representing Superstorm Sandy Max Liboiron 7. Mangoes and Monsoons: South Asian Media Coverage of Environmental Spectacles Sujata Moorti 8. Rain with a Chance of Radiation: Forecasting Local and Global Risk After Fukushima Laura Beltz Imaoka

"Weather is all around us: proliferating in every medium; swirling through communities; becoming more volatile in the epoch of climate change. This astonishing, affecting volume exquisitely arrays the social and intermedial ecologies of everyday nature—and the extremities of contemporary existence." —Janet Walker, University of California Santa Barbara "This is a highly original collection of essays, bringing the insights of a critical media studies to the environmental humanities in order to elaborate the complexities of the cultural politics implicated in the 'hypermediation' of extreme weather events." —Graeme Turner, University of Queensland