Through detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic and The Day After Tomorrow, this book looks at the ways in which disa

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Contains rated reviews of 150 disaster movies, each with a plot analysis, cast list, and a note on the most disturbing scene, and includes a history of the genr

Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken