Cinematic Encounters with Disaster
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Cinematic Encounters with Disaster: Realisms for the Anthropocene(Thinking Cinema)

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster: Realisms for the Anthropocene(Thinking Cinema)


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Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Cinematic Imagination of Disaster Ethics of Encounter for a Disastrous Epoch Responsibility and Realism Tracing the Fault Lines of Film Form Part I: Hollywood and its Shadow 1. Hollywood's Disaster Movies Disaster as Encounter in Genre Films from the 1950s to the '70s From the 1990s into the Anthropocene Avengers: Age of Ultron and Disaster Franchises San Andreas Heroic Realism 2. Strange Disaster in American Independent Cinema Strange Weather as Disastrous Encounter in Short Cuts and Melancholia Safe: Face to Face with Strange Materiality Strange Apocalypse in Donnie Darko The Way the World has Ended: Southland Tales Part II: Two Documentary Views of Anthropogenic Disaster 3. The View from Above Objectivity, Truth, and Realism in Environmental Documentary The God Tricks of An Inconvenient Truth Before the Flood: Complicity and Bad Conscience 4. The View from a Body A Disaster Documentary Realism of Subjectivity and Situation The View from a Body of Water: There Once Was an Island The View from On an Unknown Beach Part III: A Neorealist Legacy for Eco-Catastrophe 5. Realist Auteurs after the Disaster Auteurism and Response-ability: Kiarostami, Haneke, Diaz The Long Take: Opening the Environment Sound and Silence: Resonance as Encounter Seers of Disaster 6. Coda: “The Fall of the Regular Fall of the Beat, the Disaster Again” The Quiet City from 9/11 to Covid-19 Disintegration Loop 1.1 and the Disaster Again and Again Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Simon R. Troon is a Sessional Teaching Associate and Research Assistant at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His writing on cinema and the environment has been published in Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Studies in Documentary Film, and elsewhere.

Review :
In Cinematic Encounters with Disaster Simon R. Troon brings poststructuralist and post-anthropocentric theory to bear on the significance of disaster imagery and apocalyptic cinema in relation to the 'increasingly disastrous flavour' of our contemporary climate crisis. This ranging study of a timely sub-genre and troubling paradigm for the collective imaginary adds to growing scholarly insistence that 'ethical thinking about responsibility in the Anthropocene has much to offer analysis of films' - and furthermore that in going beyond its historical foundations and conventions film theory still has relevance in today's discursive intersections between screen media and the environment. Cinematic Encounters with Disaster: Realisms for the Anthropocene offers a world atlas of cinematic imaginations of disaster-from the spectacular to the almost imperceptible-that explores what it might mean, as Haythan El-Wardany wondered, to “look disaster in the eye.” Across a bravura set of close readings of films, Simon Troon develops the inquisitive gaze of pluriform cinematic realisms and the ethical attunements of post-levinasian theory to help us think expansively about the fantasies, challenges, and local and geopolitical stakes of life facing disaster. A provocative and timely contribution from an exciting new voice in the field.


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  • ISBN-13: 9798765101513
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Thinking Cinema
  • ISBN-10: 8765101510
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jun 2024
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Sub Title: Realisms for the Anthropocene


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