Reality Strikes: Simon R. Troon’s Cinematic Encounters with Disaster (opens in new tab)

Simon R. Troon’s Cinematic Encounters with Disaster: Realisms for the Anthropocene aims to expand and diversify the disaster genre. It challenges the ossified forms of Hollywood narratives, introduces under-appreciated documentary, and defends an expanded realist cinema in contemporary auteurist work that sustains ethical encounter in times of eco-catastrophe. As befits its subject, the book is […]