The future as catastrophe : imagining disaster in the modern age /

The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Horn, Eva (Author)
Other Authors: Pakis, Valentine A. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Disasters in literature.
Future, The, in literature.
Disaster films > History and criticism.
Future, The, in motion pictures.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Catastrophes dans la littérature.
Futur dans la littérature.
Films-catastrophes > Histoire et critique.
Futur au cinéma.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Disaster films
Disasters in literature
Fiction
Future, The, in literature
Future, The, in motion pictures
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Last men
  • Catastrophe without event: imagining climate disaster
  • Survival: the biopolitics of catastrophe
  • The future of things: accidents and technical safety
  • The paradoxes of prediction
  • Conclusion.

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