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Author:   Alan Wright
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781783204335

ISBN 10:   1783204338
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Film Theory as Seismic Research - Alan Wright Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Cities: San Francisco 1906 and Earthquake in Adelaide - Stephen Morgan Chapter 2: The Wrath of Heaven: The Great Kantō Earthquake and Japanese Cinema - Alex Bates Chapter 3: Earthquakes in Film: Exploring Visualization Strategies - Ozge Samanci Chapter 4: The Virtual of Disaster: Science, Politics and Tectonics in Roland Emmerich’s 2012 - Axel Andersson Chapter 5: Aftershock: The Cultural Politics of Commercializing Traumatic Memory - Jinhua Li Chapter 6: The Just Distance: Abbas Kiarostami and the Aftermath of Devastation - Steve Choe Chapter 7: Towards a Natural History of the Cinema: Walter Benjamin, Film and Catastrophe - Allen Meek Chapter 8: Seismic Energy and Symbolic Exchange in When a City Falls - Kevin Fisher Chapter 9: Landscapes in Conflict in Contemporary Chilean Film - Antonia Girardi Chapter 10: The Earth Still Trembles: On Landscape Views in Contemporary Italian Cinema - Giorgio Bertellini Chapter 11: Cinema in Reconstruction: Japan’s Post 3.11 Documentary - Joel Neville Anderson Chapter 12: Ordinary Extraordinary: 3.11 in Japanese Fiction Film - Eija Niskanen Chapter 13: Earthquake/ΣΕΙΣΜΟΣ - Yuri Averof Chapter 14: Home in a Foreign Land - Nora Niasari Chapter 15: Moving: An Interview with Park Kiyong - Zhou Ting-Fung Chapter 16: “What I Really Saw Could Not Possibly Be Reflected in a Movie”: Abbas Kiarostami on Life and Nothing More … - Hossein Najafi Chapter 17: Tres Semanas después/Life Goes On - José Luis Torres Leiva

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Alan Wright teaches cinema studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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