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portada American Disaster Movies of the 1970S: Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
268
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781501336836

American Disaster Movies of the 1970S: Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity

Scott Freer (Author) · Bloomsbury Academic · Hardcover

American Disaster Movies of the 1970S: Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity - Scott Freer

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Synopsis "American Disaster Movies of the 1970S: Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity"

American Disaster Movies of the 1970s is the first scholarly book dedicated to the disaster cycle that dominated American cinema and television in the 1970s. Through examining films such as Airport (1970), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Two-Minute Warning (1976) and The Swarm (1978), alongside their historical contexts and American contemporaneous trends, the disaster cycle is treated as a time-bound phenomenon. This book further contextualises the cycle by drawing on the longer cultural history of modernist reactions to modern anxieties, including the widespread dependence on technology and corporate power. Each chapter considers cinematic precursors, such as the 'ark movie', and contemporaneous trends, such as New Hollywood, vigilante and blaxploitation films, as well as the immediate American context: the end of the civil rights and countercultural era, the Watergate crisis, and the defeat in Vietnam.As Scott Freer argues, the disaster movie is a modern, demotic form of tragedy that satisfies a taste for the macabre. It is also an aesthetic means for processing painful truths, and many of the dramatized themes anticipate present-day monstrosities of modernity.

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