
Cinematic Encounters with Disaster
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Framed by contemporary concerns around the global climate crisis and the advent of the Anthropocene, questions about how films can best offer responses to historical exigency guide the book's explorations of spectacular 2010s blockbusters like Gravity (2013) and San Andreas (2015), environmental documentaries including the paradigmatic An Inconvenient Truth (2006), post-disaster films by auteurs including Abbas Kiarostami and Lav Diaz, and more. Conceiving of disaster as intersubjective ethics between humans and nonhuman alterity - forces of nature, errant technology, monsters, ghosts, and other entities - it analyses how formal techniques and narrative strategies render encounters in which human protagonists are confronted with the threat of death and respond in ways that can be instructive for our planet's present juncture.
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Ethics of Encounter for a Disastrous Epoch
Responsibility and Realism
Tracing the Fault Lines of Film Form
Part I: Hollywood and its Shadow
1. Hollywood's Disaster Movies
Disaster as Encounter in Genre Films from the 1950s to the '70s
From the 1990s into the Anthropocene
Avengers: Age of Ultron and Disaster Franchises
San Andreas
Heroic Realism
2. Strange Disaster in American Independent Cinema
Strange Weather as Disastrous Encounter in Short Cuts and Melancholia
Safe: Face to Face with Strange Materiality
Strange Apocalypse in Donnie Darko
The Way the World has Ended: Southland Tales
Part II: Two Documentary Views of Anthropogenic Disaster
3. The View from Above
Objectivity, Truth, and Realism in Environmental Documentary
The God Tricks of An Inconvenient Truth
Before the Flood: Complicity and Bad Conscience
4. The View from a Body
A Disaster Documentary Realism of Subjectivity and Situation
The View from a Body of Water: There Once Was an Island
The View from On an Unknown Beach
Part III: A Neorealist Legacy for Eco-Catastrophe
5. Realist Auteurs after the Disaster
Auteurism and Response-ability: Kiarostami, Haneke, Diaz
The Long Take: Opening the Environment
Sound and Silence: Resonance as Encounter
Seers of Disaster
6. Coda: "The Fall of the Regular Fall of the Beat, the Disaster Again"
The Quiet City from 9/11 to Covid-19
Disintegration Loop 1.1 and the Disaster Again and Again
Bibliography
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