{"product_id":"film-on-the-faultline-9781783204335","title":"Film on the Faultline","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilm 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. \u003cem\u003eFilm on the Faultline\u003c\/em\u003e explores the fractious relationship between cinema and seismic experience and addresses the important role that cinema can play in the wake of such events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Film Theory as Seismic Research - Alan Wright\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: A Tale of Two Cities: San Francisco 1906 and Earthquake in Adelaide - Stephen Morgan \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: The Wrath of Heaven: The Great Kantō Earthquake and Japanese Cinema - Alex Bates \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Earthquakes in Film: Exploring Visualization Strategies - Ozge Samanci \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Virtual of Disaster: Science, Politics and Tectonics in Roland Emmerich’s 2012 - Axel Andersson \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Aftershock: The Cultural Politics of Commercializing Traumatic Memory - Jinhua Li \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: The Just Distance: Abbas Kiarostami and the Aftermath of Devastation - Steve Choe \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Towards a Natural History of the Cinema: Walter Benjamin, Film and Catastrophe - Allen Meek \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Seismic Energy and Symbolic Exchange in When a City Falls - Kevin Fisher\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Landscapes in Conflict in Contemporary Chilean Film - Antonia Girardi \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: The Earth Still Trembles: On Landscape Views in Contemporary Italian Cinema - Giorgio Bertellini \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Cinema in Reconstruction: Japan’s Post 3.11 Documentary - Joel Neville Anderson \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Ordinary Extraordinary: 3.11 in Japanese Fiction Film - Eija Niskanen \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: Earthquake\/ΣΕΙΣΜΟΣ - Yuri Averof \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: Home in a Foreign Land - Nora Niasari \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: Moving: An Interview with Park Kiyong - Zhou Ting-Fung \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: “What I Really Saw Could Not Possibly Be Reflected in a Movie”: Abbas Kiarostami on Life and Nothing More … - Hossein Najafi \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17: Tres Semanas después\/Life Goes On - José Luis Torres Leiva\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042262319447,"sku":"9781783204335","price":31.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783204335.jpg?v=1750953676","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/film-on-the-faultline-9781783204335","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}