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Dramatising Disaster: Character, Event, Representation

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Description for Dramatising Disaster: Character, Event, Representation Hardback. The imagining of disaster has intensified across a wide range of media entertainment formats and genres in recent years and themes of disaster are regularly deployed in fictional films, television drama series, drama-documentaries, comic books and video games. This book focuses on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture. Editor(s): Thomas, Rhys Owain; Cornea, Christine. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: AN; AP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 1379.
The imagining of disaster has intensified across a wide range of media entertainment formats and genres in recent years and themes of disaster are regularly deployed in fictional films, television drama series, drama-documentaries, comic books and video games. This being the case, it is therefore vital that film and media scholars pay attention to the ways in which disaster is presented to us, to the figurative strategies employed, to the representational history of disaster in media, to the metaphorical resonances of disaster themes, and even to the ways in which entertainment media texts might be understood as part of a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781443842419
SKU
V9781443842419
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About Unknown
Christine Cornea is a Lecturer at the School of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality (co-published by Edinburgh University Press/Rutgers University Press, 2007) and has published widely on science fiction in film and television. Her work has appeared in the journals Velvet Light ... Read more

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