Overview

Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. Earthquakes, especially, not only shift the ground beneath our feet but also herald a new way of thinking or being in the world. Following recent seismic events in countries as dissimilar as Iran, Chile and Haiti, Japan and New Zealand, national films have emerged that challenge ingrained political, economic, ethical, and ontological categories of modernity. Film on the Faultline explores the fractious relationship between cinema and seismic experience and addresses the important role that cinema can play in the wake of such events as forms of popular memory and personal testimony.

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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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