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Dramatising Disaster: Character, Event, Representation
Author(s): Christine Cornea (Author, Editor), Rhys Owain Thomas (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 7 Jan. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443842419
- ISBN-13: 9781443842419
Book Description
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 broader discourse of disaster within certain historical and cultural contexts. Dramatising Disaster presents new and innovative research from both early career and more established academics. Some of the chapters in this edited collection are based upon papers originally presented at a highly successful conference study day held by the School of Film, Television and Media at the University of East Anglia in 2011, while others are specifically solicited contributions. Distinct from previous, more particularised film and media studies in this area, this edited collection is focused not upon a specific disaster or specific disaster context, but upon the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.
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About the Author
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 Trap, Genders, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She has also published on the topic of screen performance, including her recent edited volume, Genre and Performance: Film and Television (Manchester University Press, 2010). Rhys Owain Thomas is a PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia. His thesis explores recent developments in American science fiction television, specifically in relation to the concept of liminality. His work has appeared in the journal Celebrity Studies, and he has recently published a special “Telefantasy” issue of MeCCSA’s Networking Knowledge (co-edited with Sophie Halliday).
