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Through detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic and The Day After Tomorrow, this book looks at the ways in which disa

"A comprehensive introduction to a genre that has flourished since the 1970s." -- Back cover.

"Surveying disaster film from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores the disaster film genre from its initial appearance in 1933 (The Grapes

This study of disaster movies from the 1970s, through reception theory and queer theory, chronicles how the genre rose to prominence, sank into critical and pop

Disaster movies have been around from the very beginning of film. This fun, thrilling, unique genre has always captiavted audiences around the world and spawned