Black Saturday: representing catastrophe

Title: Black Saturday: representing catastrophe
Creator: Boer, Roland
Relation: Small Screen Revelations: Apocalypse in Contemporary Television p. 59-73
Relation: http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/showbook.asp?bkid=225
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: Reports of catastrophe seem to be all around us. It may be the worst economic downturn (beginning in 2008) since the Great Depression if not in the history of capitalism (McNally 2009), or it may be the urgent matter of global warming and environmental collapse (Flannery 2005), or it may the first glimmers of the end of that cheap black energy known as oil (Deffeyes 2003, 2005; Energy Watch Group, 2007). These three jostle for attention, one or the other gaining media attention in light of immediate urgency, but such narratives of destruction are saturated with apocalyptic images and themes. There may be wars over scarce resources, widespread death from starvation and disease, or the destruction caused by monster storms and rising sea levels. However, occasionally another, more immediate catastrophe appears on our television screens. My concern is one of those cases.
Subject: environmental catastrophe; oil; capitalism; global warming
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1319086
Identifier: uon:23779
Identifier: ISBN:9781907534782
Language: eng

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