| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 284 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Note |
Translated from the German. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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Disasters in literature.
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Disasters in literature. |
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Future, The, in literature.
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Future, The, in literature. |
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Disaster films -- History and criticism.
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Disaster films. |
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Future, The, in motion pictures.
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Future, The, in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Pakis, Valentine A., translator.
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| Added Title |
Zukunft als Katastrophe. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2018012421
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Horn, Eva. Zukunft als Katastrophe. English. Future as catastrophe. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 9780231188623 (DLC) 2018008908 (OCoLC)1035443649 |
| ISBN |
9780231547956 (electronic book) |
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0231547951 (electronic book) |
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9780231188623 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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