Friday essay: eco-disaster films in the 21st century
- Written by Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
A scene from the 2017 film Geostorm: many societies have historically attempted to deal with collective trauma by replaying and restaging it in art.Warner Bros., Electric Entertainment, Rat Pac-Dune EntertainmentIt seems like every time we switch on the idiot box we are confronted with news footage of another disaster. Bushfires in Australia. A hur...