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Pages: 140
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Wallflower Press
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Studying Films
"A comprehensive introduction to a genre that has flourished since the 1970s." -- Back cover.
Language: en
Pages: 395
Pages: 395
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-16 - Publisher: Lexington Books
Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year approximately two hundred million people
Language: en
Pages: 401
Pages: 401
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 266
Pages: 266
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Jacana Media
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