
Post-Catastrophe Film
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This book proposes that a new sub-genre of film called 'post-catastrophe' is emerging that displays narratives
directly analogous to our current predicament of runaway climate disruption. Post-catastrophe film sits in the
space between blockbuster disaster movies that use scenes of destruction to blow the world up and disrupt the flow of humanity and post-apocalyptic films where a version of society has formed in the ashes of the disaster.
In these narratives, the characters are thrown into a world of unsettling circumstances in which they have to adapt and strive for survival and reimagine the world as it changes around them. We face a similar predicament."
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'Post-Catastrophe Film is a serious engagement with how the end of the world is represented in science fiction. Stephen Lee Naish's analysis asks us to consider what catastrophic films are trying to tell us about our contemporary moment, underneath the spectacle and the rubble. From insistences on carrying on with daily life, indulging in individualist fantasies of frontiersmanship, escaping sacrifice zones, witnessing the slow degradation of everything, to the helpless yearning for heroic intervention. Naish asks us to confront our shared exposure and consider what we have to collectively lose - or gain.' -- Robert E. Kirsch, co-author of Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in America 'A fascinating account of what it means that the world may be ending in a smoky and damp whimper, not a Hollywood bang. Deft and provocative criticism that helps us see our moment!' -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Here Comes the Sun 'Stephen Lee Naish's Post-Catastrophe Film compellingly exposes an array of real-life concerns veiled in the morbid fantasies of apocalyptic cinema, focusing on the immediate aftermath of a global event, before new social structures and rules for living have emerged. Naish shows how deeply film and our lived realities are intertwined, noting that the pandemic nearly brought the apocalypse to our ability to dream through the cinema itself. He emphasizes how this mythmaking machine has persevered in cognitively mapping scenarios of global environmental destruction as well as presenting anxious viewers with ways of envisioning alternative modes of being before post-catastrophe becomes our reality the way post-modernity, post-humanism and post-truth already have.' -- Anil Narine, Author, and Editor of Eco-Trauma Cinema (Routledge, 2015) 'In an era of pervasive polycrisis, in between large-scale disaster and post-apocalyptic films, Stephen Lee Naish looks at popular post-catastrophe films in the Netflix stream to distill their narrative elements and interpret their significance. He contends that these science fiction films are the 'realism' we need for our collective imagination and the survival of humankind. He discusses an array of quasi-prescient films that represent a perilous world with glimpses of 'alternative futures.' These films entertain 'unthinkable' events that not only run counter to conservative denial and rejection of ecosystem breakdown, they also present bleak scenarios and glimmers of hope for our consideration that may bypass far right vision of disaster capitalism, a barbarous future, and supremacist survivalism on a wrecked earth.' -- Bob Hanke, independent scholar and authorMore details
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Acknowledgments
Prelude
Introduction: The Slow-Motion Catastrophe
A Primer to Understanding Post-Catastrophe Films
Small Screen Apocalypse: Examples of Post-Catastrophe Films
Does Technology Envision Our Annihilation? The Role of Artificial Intelligence, Simulated Dreamworlds, and Augmented Robots, and Cyborgs in Post-Catastrophe Narratives
Cosmic Post-Catastrophe: Escaping our Planet and Colonizing Others
The Optimistic Apocalypse: Star Trek as Post-Catastrophe Narrative
A Sense of an Ending: Envisioning the Absolute Destruction of Everything
The Lonely Planet: On Being the Last Person on Earth
Being Normal in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Living Among Gods, Monsters, and Superheroes
Conclusion
Why Post-Catastrophe Narratives Matter
Notes
Index
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