Disaster mon amour : on our love affair with catastrophe, so long as it is happening to someone else / David Thomson.

As anyone in the news business knows, audiences swell with the scale of disaster; humans have always been drawn to the rumors of our own demise. In this darkly comic book, noted film historian David Thomson examines iconic disasters, both real and fictional, exposing the slippage between what occurs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomson, David, 1941- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
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Physical Description:212 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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