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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463452703321

Titolo

Dramatising disaster [[electronic resource] ] : character, event, representation / / edited by Christine Cornea and Rhys Owain Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013

ISBN

1-4438-4648-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CorneaChristine

ThomasRhys Owain

Disciplina

791.4

791.43

Soggetti

Disaster films - History and criticism

Disasters - Press coverage

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 ...