| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 future that can be anticipated and planned |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 2, 2018) |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Disasters in literature.
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Future, The, in literature.
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Disaster films -- History and criticism.
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Future, The, in motion pictures.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Disaster films
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Disasters in literature
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Fiction
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Future, The, in literature
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Future, The, in motion pictures
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pakis, Valentine A., translator.
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| LC no. |
2018022545 |
| ISBN |
9780231547956 |
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0231547951 |
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0231188625 |
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9780231188623 |
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9780231188630 |
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0231188633 |
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