Simon R. Troon is Lecturer in Film, Screen and Culture at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His writing on cinema and the environment has been published in Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Media International Australia, Studies in Documentary Film and elsewhere.

Reading authors like Troon helps inform how narratives are shaped and the history of literary works influencing present-­day cinema … I recommend this book to anyone who has started researching disaster movies and wants to better understand the literary side of this medium.

• Introduction: The Cinematic Imagination of DisasterEthics of Encounter for a Disastrous EpochResponsibility and RealismTracing the Fault Lines of Film FormPart I: Hollywood and its Shadow1. Hollywood’s Disaster MoviesDisaster as Encounter in Genre Films from the 1950s to the ‘70sFrom the 1990s into the AnthropoceneAvengers: Age of Ultron and Disaster FranchisesSan AndreasHeroic Realism 2. Strange Disaster in American Independent CinemaStrange Weather as Disastrous Encounter in Short Cuts and MelancholiaSafe: Face to Face with Strange MaterialityStrange Apocalypse in Donnie DarkoThe Way the World has Ended: Southland Tales Part II: Two Documentary Views of Anthropogenic Disaster3. The View from AboveObjectivity, Truth, and Realism in Environmental DocumentaryThe God Tricks of An Inconvenient TruthBefore the Flood: Complicity and Bad Conscience 4. The View from a BodyA Disaster Documentary Realism of Subjectivity and SituationThe View from a Body of Water: There Once Was an IslandThe View from On an Unknown Beach Part III: A Neorealist Legacy for Eco-Catastrophe5. Realist Auteurs after the DisasterAuteurism and Response-ability: Kiarostami, Haneke, DiazThe Long Take: Opening the EnvironmentSound and Silence: Resonance as EncounterSeers of Disaster 6. Coda: “The Fall of the Regular Fall of the Beat, the Disaster Again”The Quiet City from 9/11 to Covid-19Disintegration Loop 1.1 and the Disaster Again and AgainBibliography Index

Simon R. Troon is Lecturer in Film, Screen and Culture at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His writing on cinema and the environment has been published in Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Media International Australia, Studies in Documentary Film and elsewhere.

Reading authors like Troon helps inform how narratives are shaped and the history of literary works influencing present-­day cinema … I recommend this book to anyone who has started researching disaster movies and wants to better understand the literary side of this medium.

• Introduction: The Cinematic Imagination of DisasterEthics of Encounter for a Disastrous EpochResponsibility and RealismTracing the Fault Lines of Film FormPart I: Hollywood and its Shadow1. Hollywood’s Disaster MoviesDisaster as Encounter in Genre Films from the 1950s to the ‘70sFrom the 1990s into the AnthropoceneAvengers: Age of Ultron and Disaster FranchisesSan AndreasHeroic Realism 2. Strange Disaster in American Independent CinemaStrange Weather as Disastrous Encounter in Short Cuts and MelancholiaSafe: Face to Face with Strange MaterialityStrange Apocalypse in Donnie DarkoThe Way the World has Ended: Southland Tales Part II: Two Documentary Views of Anthropogenic Disaster3. The View from AboveObjectivity, Truth, and Realism in Environmental DocumentaryThe God Tricks of An Inconvenient TruthBefore the Flood: Complicity and Bad Conscience 4. The View from a BodyA Disaster Documentary Realism of Subjectivity and SituationThe View from a Body of Water: There Once Was an IslandThe View from On an Unknown Beach Part III: A Neorealist Legacy for Eco-Catastrophe5. Realist Auteurs after the DisasterAuteurism and Response-ability: Kiarostami, Haneke, DiazThe Long Take: Opening the EnvironmentSound and Silence: Resonance as EncounterSeers of Disaster 6. Coda: “The Fall of the Regular Fall of the Beat, the Disaster Again”The Quiet City from 9/11 to Covid-19Disintegration Loop 1.1 and the Disaster Again and AgainBibliography Index

Simon R. Troon is Lecturer in Film, Screen and Culture at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His writing on cinema and the environment has been published in Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Media International Australia, Studies in Documentary Film and elsewhere.

Reading authors like Troon helps inform how narratives are shaped and the history of literary works influencing present-­day cinema … I recommend this book to anyone who has started researching disaster movies and wants to better understand the literary side of this medium.

• Introduction: The Cinematic Imagination of DisasterEthics of Encounter for a Disastrous EpochResponsibility and RealismTracing the Fault Lines of Film FormPart I: Hollywood and its Shadow1. Hollywood’s Disaster MoviesDisaster as Encounter in Genre Films from the 1950s to the ‘70sFrom the 1990s into the AnthropoceneAvengers: Age of Ultron and Disaster FranchisesSan AndreasHeroic Realism 2. Strange Disaster in American Independent CinemaStrange Weather as Disastrous Encounter in Short Cuts and MelancholiaSafe: Face to Face with Strange MaterialityStrange Apocalypse in Donnie DarkoThe Way the World has Ended: Southland Tales Part II: Two Documentary Views of Anthropogenic Disaster3. The View from AboveObjectivity, Truth, and Realism in Environmental DocumentaryThe God Tricks of An Inconvenient TruthBefore the Flood: Complicity and Bad Conscience 4. The View from a BodyA Disaster Documentary Realism of Subjectivity and SituationThe View from a Body of Water: There Once Was an IslandThe View from On an Unknown Beach Part III: A Neorealist Legacy for Eco-Catastrophe5. Realist Auteurs after the DisasterAuteurism and Response-ability: Kiarostami, Haneke, DiazThe Long Take: Opening the EnvironmentSound and Silence: Resonance as EncounterSeers of Disaster 6. Coda: “The Fall of the Regular Fall of the Beat, the Disaster Again”The Quiet City from 9/11 to Covid-19Disintegration Loop 1.1 and the Disaster Again and AgainBibliography Index