- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Wallflower Press; illustrated edition edition (May 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1903364051
- ISBN-13: 978-1903364055
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 209 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,440,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
An introduction to the history and development of this genre, this book provides insightful methods of reading and appreciating an extremely popular cinematic form. Ranging from 1950s sci-fi B-movies to high concept 1990s "millennial movies," Stephen Keane looks at the ways in which the representation of disaster and its aftermath are born out of both contextual considerations and the increasing commercial demands of contemporary Hollywood. Through detailed analyses of such films as Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, Independence Day, and Titanic, the book explores the continual reworking of this to-date undervalued genre.
About the Author
Stephen Keane is lecturer in film at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds, UK.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Dr Zhivago a disaster-movie ?!?,
By Cyberbambi123 (Zürich - Switzerland / Europe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe (Paperback)
well, well there are not to many filmbooks about disastermovies. They certainly had there best time in the seventies with films like "Airport", "Earthquake" oder "Towering Inferno" but also the following decades brought us films like "Volcano" or "Twister". The books describes the genre starting in the 1910's, with detailed analyses of the 70's films. I miss a filmographie with detailed informations - instead you'll find a list of disastermovies including "Batman", "Ben Hur" or even "Dr. Zhivago"... not very helpfull.... A few more pictures (5 on 133
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Dr Zhivago a disaster-movie ?!?,
By Cyberbambi123 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe (Paperback)
well, well there are not to many filmbooks about disastermovies. They certainly had there best time in the seventies with films like "Airport", "Earthquake" oder "Towering Inferno" but also the following decades brought us films like "Volcano" or "Twister". The books describes the genre starting in the 1910's, with detailed analyses of the 70's films. I miss a filmographie with detailed informations - instead you'll find a list of disastermovies including "Batman", "Ben Hur" or even "Dr. Zhivago"... not very helpfull.... A few more pictures (5 on 133
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