The imagination of eco-disaster : post-disaster rebuilding in Asian cinema

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Chu, Kiu-Wai
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2021
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Language; Natural Disaster; Ecocinema
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145671
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Commercial films today often reduce representations of natural catastrophes to commodified spectacles that de-contextualize the subject matter. To contemporary film viewers, the ‘psychic numbing’ effect is apparent, and it does not apply merely to our perception of numbers, statistics, the big da...