Dramatising Disaster: Character, Event, Representation

ISBN-10: 1443846481
ISBN-13: 9781443846486
Category: Performing Arts
Pages: 180
Language: English
Published: 2013-02-14
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Authors: Christine Cornea, Rhys Owain Thomas

Description

The imagining of disaster has intensified across a wide range of media entertainment formats and genres in recent years and themes of disaster are regularly deployed in fictional films, television drama series, drama-documentaries, comic books and video games. This being the case, it is therefore vital that film and media scholars pay attention to the ways in which disaster is presented to us, to the figurative strategies employed, to the representational history of disaster in media, to the metaphorical resonances of disaster themes, and even to the ways in which entertainment media texts might be understood as part of a broader discourse of disaster within certain historical and cultural contexts. Dramatising Disaster presents new and innovative research from both early career and more established academics. Some of the chapters in this edited collection are based upon papers originally presented at a highly successful conference study day held by the School of Film, Television and Media at the University of East Anglia in 2011, while others are specifically solicited contributions. Distinct from previous, more particularised film and media studies in this area, this edited collection is focused not upon a specific disaster or specific disaster context, but upon the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.

Get the book

Similar books

Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary
By Vincent Campbell
Again, a focus on experimental archaeology can be traced back to the 1950s, to Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition (made into a film in 1950), and has persisted in television series like Secrets of Lost Empires (1997, 2000), ...
The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay
By Paul Dobraszczyk
On the regeneration of Ancoats, see Blakeley and Evans, The Regeneration of East Manchester, pp. 67–70; and Crinson and Tyrer, 'Clocking off in Ancoats'. See Shelina Begum, 'Work starts on historic Murrays' Mill in Ancoats, Manchester', ...
The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World
By Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Angela Krewani
Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Angela Krewani. lated in relation to it, through a therapeutic ... Jeff Lewis, Global Media Apocalypse (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2012), 18. 3.
Nylon Years: A Graphic Dramatization of the Flixborough Disaster
By Ramin Abhari
In NYLON YEARS, Ramin Abhari, a chemical engineer and graphic artist, weaves technology, history, and romance into a fabric spanning 40 years (of nylon).
The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television
By Michael Hauskeller, Curtis D. Carbonell, Thomas D. Philbeck
Warwick, Kevin (2002/2004) I, Cyborg, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Waskul, Dennis D. (2002) 'The Naked ... Kristen (2010) 'The Digital Multitude', Cinema Journal 49.4: 90–110. ... Wolfe, Cary (2010) What Is Posthumanism?
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
By Peter Krämer
Peter Krämer. Thomas (eds), Dramatising Disaster: Character, Event, Representation (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), pp. 124–9; and Peter Krämer, '“To Prevent the Present Heat from Dissipating”: Stanley Kubrick and the ...
Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick's "Nightmare Comedy"
By Mick Broderick
Jose Biller and Alberto J. Espay, 'Alien Hand Syndrome', in Practical Neurology Visual Review (Baltimore, MD: Lippinott Williams & Wikins, 2013), 54–55. Heilman and Valenstein, The Alien Hand: Terminology and Pathogenesis, 359.
Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination
By Paul Dobraszczyk
In Michael Anderson's 1976 film Logan's Run, set in the year 2274 and based on the 1967 novel by William Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, a vast domed city has been created to house the population that formerly lived in Washington, dc, ...
The Kubrick Legacy
By Mick Broderick
... Dramatising Disaster : Character , Event , Representation , edited by Christine Cornea and Rhys Owain Thomas , 120-35 . Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing . ———. 2014. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop.
Roman Tragedy
By Anthony J. Boyle
... dramatised riddles , as in the testudo fragment of Antiopa ) , 100 but a passion for linguistic experimentation . The frag- ments , of course , often chosen as they were for their linguistic idiosyncrasies , perhaps overly represent ...