American Disaster Movies of the 1970s
Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 24 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501375620
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 226x148x18 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 bw illus 673
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Long description:
American Disaster Movies of the 1970s is the first scholarly book dedicated to the disaster cycle that dominated American cinema and television in the 1970s.
Through examining films such as Airport (1970), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Two-Minute Warning (1976) and The Swarm (1978), alongside their historical contexts and American contemporaneous trends, the disaster cycle is treated as a time-bound phenomenon. This book further contextualises the cycle by drawing on the longer cultural history of modernist reactions to modern anxieties, including the widespread dependence on technology and corporate power.
Each chapter considers cinematic precursors, such as the 'ark movie', and contemporaneous trends, such as New Hollywood, vigilante and blaxploitation films, as well as the immediate American context: the end of the civil rights and countercultural era, the Watergate crisis, and the defeat in Vietnam.As Scott Freer argues, the disaster movie is a modern, demotic form of tragedy that satisfies a taste for the macabre. It is also an aesthetic means for processing painful truths, and many of the dramatized themes anticipate present-day monstrosities of modernity.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Don't look up
1. Purging the American Dream in the 1930s
2. Melodrama in high modernity: Airport (1970)
3: The dark carnivalesque: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
4. Skyscraper apocalypticism: The Towering Inferno (1974)
5. Los Angeles - a 'convicted' city: Earthquake (1974), The Day of the Locust (1975), Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
6. Modern arenas of pleasure and violence: Rollercoaster (1977), Two-Minute Warning (1976), Black Sunday (1977)
7. Bee ecohorror: The Swarm (1978)
8. The destructive gaze: The Medusa Touch (1978)
9. Aftermath
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
