{"product_id":"american-disaster-movies-of-the-scott-freer-9781501375620","title":"American Disaster Movies of the 1970s: Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Disaster Movies of the 1970\u003c\/i\u003es is the first scholarly book dedicated to the disaster cycle that dominated American cinema and television in the 1970s.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough examining films such as \u003ci\u003eAirport\u003c\/i\u003e (1970), \u003ci\u003eThe Poseidon Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), \u003ci\u003eTwo-Minute Warning\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) and \u003ci\u003eThe Swarm\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott Freer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501375628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501375620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Scott Freer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485473353983,"sku":"9781501375620","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c888692b-cfe7-4a31-8945-442b4eb10364.jpg?v=1778049709","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-disaster-movies-of-the-scott-freer-9781501375620","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}