Disaster mon amour : on our love affair with catastrophe, so long as it is happening to someone else / David Thomson.
Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2022]Copyright date: �2022Description: 212 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300246940
- 791.43655 23
- 155.935 23
- PN1995.9.D55 T56 2022
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Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 791.43655 THO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000417448 |
Includes index.
"Author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film"--Dust jacket.
As anyone in the news business knows, audiences swell with the scale of disaster; humans have always been drawn to the rumors of our own demise. In this darkly comic book, noted film historian David Thomson examines iconic disasters, both real and fictional, exposing the slippage between what occurs and what we observe. Demonstrating how disasters become yet another commodity for our consumption, Thomson shows how digital culture sates our desire to witness chaos while suffering none of its aftereffects. Through classic movies such as San Andreas; eyewitness responses to real disasters such as the Aberfan coal mining disaster and the coronavirus pandemic; and media portrayals of disasters throughout history, Thomson pulls back the curtain to reveal why we love watching disaster unfold--but only if it happens to others.
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