Film on the Faultline
Publisher: Intellect, Limited
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781783204335
Subjects: Earthquakes; Motion pictures
Description: "Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. The earthquake, especially, transforms our understanding of the limits and possibilities of cinema, as well as of life itself. After major quakes in countries as dissimilar as Japan, Chile, Iran, and New Zealand, film-makers have responded with films that challenge ingrained social, political, ethical and philosophical categories of thinking and being in the world. Film on the Faultline explores the fractious relationship between cinema and seismic experience and addresses the important role that cinema can play in the wake of such events."--Back cover.