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Film on the Faultline Author: Alan Wright

ISBN: 9781783204335 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 200 Published: 16 June 2015 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 17.8 x 1.91 Description:

The recent earthquakes in Chile, Christchurch and Japan have left a host of powerful images in the minds and memories of millions of people around the world. Filmmakers from across the globe have shown how the aftermath of similar natural disasters has forever transformed lives and communities, often with devastating effect. Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. From its earliest days, cinema has registered the impact of seismic events. The aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake is recorded on film. In New Zealand, footage from the Napier earthquake of 1937 shows the destruction of the town. Hollywood even recast New Zealand inGreen Dolphin Street (Saville, 1947) as the fictional setting for a special effects mega-quake and tsunami.

An earthquake is also a conceptual event of telluric proportions. It shifts the axis of the world and produces a radical realignment of forces and potentiality. It signals a new way of thinking or being in the world. An emergent seismic consciousness, reflected in a num...

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