Nick Roddick
This concise introduction serves its purpose well and should prove a useful teaching tool.
Geoff King
A lively and engaging account of the mayhem inflicted on the world by Hollywood.
Book Description
Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the disaster genre. From 1950s sci-fi B-movies to high-concept 1990s millennial movies, Stephen Keane looks at the ways in which the representation of disaster and its aftermath are borne out of both contextual considerations and the increasing commercial demands of contemporary Hollywood. Through detailed analyses of such films as Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, Independence Day and Titanic, the book explores the continual reworking of this, to date, undervalued genre.
About the Author
Stephen Keane is Lecturer in Film at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds, UK.
