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American Disaster Movies of the 1970s - Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity (Hardcover)
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American Disaster Movies of the 1970s - Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity (Hardcover)
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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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