Dramatising disaster: character, event, representation

by Cornea, Christine Thomas, Rhys Owain

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'Dramatising Disaster' presents new and innovative research from both early career and more established academics.

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Full title :Dramatising disaster : character, event, representation / edited by Christine Cornea and Rhys Owain Thomas.

Summary

'Dramatising Disaster' presents new and innovative research from both early career and more established academics.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Place of Publication:Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013.

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 172 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1443842419, 9781443842419
oclc:ocn818952982
LC Classification:PN1995.9.D55
Dewey Decimal:791.4309093

Diagnosis Disaster: Cultural Narratives of Cancer and Femininity in and The Family Stone / Liz Powell -- Trauma and the Technological Accident in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter / Rob Bullard -- "High School is a Battlefield for your Heart": Teen Networks' Obsession with Apocalyptic Drama / Hannah Ellison -- Re-constructing "Le Coup": Man on Wire, Derrida's Event, and Cinematic Representation Ruth Mackay and Stephen Mitchell -- "Catastrophic Beauty": New York City as a Site of Urban Warfare in Contemporary Video Games /Sophie Halliday -- After the Deluge: Everyday Tactics and Representational Strategies in Time of Crisis / Nina Mickwitz -- Duelling and Jamming: Hurricane Katrina, Everyday New Orleans, and the Satisfactions of Treme / Ed Clough -- "The Greatest Mass Murderer Since Adolf Hitler": Nuclear War and the Nazi Past in Dr. Strangelove /Peter Krämer -- Queering Disaster: Recategorising Life and Death in Torchwood: Miracle Day / Rhys Owain Thomas -- Post-Apocalyptic Narrative and Environmental Documentary: The Case Life After People / Christine Cornea.

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Berichterstattung Catastrophes -- Couverture de presse Criticism, interpretation, etc Disaster films Disaster films -- History and criticism Disasters -- Press coverage Films-catastrophes -- Histoire et criti… Katastrophe Katastrophenfilm