Film on the faultline

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Film on the faultline

edited by Alan Wright

Intellect, 2015

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Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. The earthquake, especially, transforms our understanding of the limits and possibilities of cinema, as well as of life itself. After major quakes in countries as dissimilar as Japan, Chile, Iran and New Zealand, filmmakers have responded with films that challenge ingrained social, political, ethical and philosophical categories of thinking and being in the world. 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.

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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 Kanto 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/ - 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 despues/Life Goes On - Jose Luis Torres Leiva

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