Title: Disaster movies : the cinema of catastrophe /
Authors: Keane, Stephen.
Publisher: Wallflower,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Disaster films History and criticism.; Motion pictures Plots, themes, etc.
Abstract: Through detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic and The Day After Tomorrow, this book 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. Featuring new material on cinematic representations of disaster in the wake of 9/11 and how we might regard disaster movies in light of recent natural disasters, the volume explores the continual reworking of this previously undervalued genre.
Contents: The savage seventies -- Transitions: action and disaster -- The sense of an ending -- Surviving disaster.