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American disaster movies of the 1970s : crisis, spectacle and modernity
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Title
American disaster movies of the 1970s : crisis, spectacle and modernity / Scott Freer.
ISBN
9781501336836
1501336835
9781501375620
1501375628
9781501336843
9781501336850
9781501336867
Publication
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
ix, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"Introduces a historicist perspective by placing the disaster movie film genre within the immediate context of the 1970s American high modernity whilst engaging with relevant philosophical, theological and eco-critical ideas on evil, determinism, and human nature"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Freer, Scott, 1967- American disaster movies of the 1970s New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 30, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface : Escape from Lockdown City (2020)
Introduction : don't look up
Purging the American Dream in the 1930s
Melodrama in high modernity : Airport (1970)
The dark carnivalesque : The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Skyscraper apocalypticism : The Towering Inferno (1974)
Los Angeles
a 'convicted' city : Earthquake (1974), The Day of the Locust (1975), Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Modern arenas of pleasure and violence : Rollercoaster (1977), Two-Minute Warning (1976), Black Sunday (1977)
Bee ecohorror : The Swarm (1978)
The destructive gaze : The Medusa Touch (1978)
Aftermath.
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