TY - BOOK ID - 77929260 TI - The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises AU - BJØRNSTEN, THOMAS AU - BRODESCO, ALBERTO AU - Capeloa Gil, Isabel AU - Dietrich, René AU - Eliassen, Knut Ove AU - Gonçalves, Diana AU - HANKOVSZKY, ANIKÓ AU - HOLM, ISAK WINKEL AU - JOSHI, SARAH A AU - Kooijman, Jaap AU - MACKINTOSH, ALEX AU - Meiner, Carsten AU - Nyirubugara, Olivier AU - Nünning, Ansgar AU - PERRET, CATHERINE AU - SOEWARTA, AGUS AU - Veel, Kristin AU - WIND MEYHOFF, KARSTEN AU - ŠPRAH, ANDREJ AU - KALLENBACH, ULLA AU - WINKEL HOLM, ISAK PY - 2012 SN - 1283856999 311028295X 9783110282955 9781283856997 9783110282832 3110282836 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Catastrophical, The, in motion pictures. KW - Catastrophical, The, in literature. KW - Catastrophical, The, in art. KW - Motion pictures KW - Art. KW - Catastrophes. KW - Crises. KW - Film. KW - Literature. KW - Trauma. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77929260 AB - Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. They are disruptions of order. In various ways and to different degrees, they change and subvert what we regard as normal. They may occur on a personal level in the form of traumatic or stressful situations, on a social level in the form of unstable political, financial or religious situations, or on a global level in the form of environmental states of emergency. The main assumption in this book is that, in contrast to the directness of any given catastrophe and its obvious physical, economical and psychological consequences our understanding of catastrophes and crises is shaped by our cultural imagination. No matter in which eruptive and traumatizing form we encounter them, our collective repertoire of symbolic forms, historical sensibilities, modes of representation, and patterns of imagination determine how we identify, analyze and deal with catastrophes and crises. This book presents a series of articles investigating how we address and interpret catastrophes and crises in film, literature, art and theory, ranging from Voltaire's eighteenth-century Europe, haunted by revolutions and earthquakes, to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the bleak, prophetic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy. ER -