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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornea, Christine.

Thomas, Rhys Owain.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster films--History and criticism--Congresses.

Disaster films.

Disasters--Press coverage--Congresses.

Disasters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; EDITORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; PART I INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; PART II INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; PART III INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4438-4648-1

OCLC:

830168592