Intellect

Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. Earthquakes, especially, shift not only the ground beneath our feet but also herald a new way of thinking or being in the world. Following recent seismic events in countries as dissimilar as Iran, Chile and Haiti, national films have emerged that challenge ingrained political, economic, ethical, and ontological categories of modernity. Film on the Faultline explores the fractious relationship between cinema and seismic experience and addresses the important role that cinema can play in the wake of such events.

 

A portion of the royalties for this book will be donated to the relief fund for the earthquake in Nepal.

 

Alan Wright teaches cinema studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.