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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.

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

Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year approximately two hundred million people

Human history is periodically punctuated by natural disasters, from Vesuvius' eruption to the modern-day Covid-19 pandemic. Volcanoes have buried entire cities,