Post-Catastrophe Film

Cinematic Visions in the Aftermath of Disaster

What can post-catastrophe films tell us about our current real-world circumstances?

This book proposes that a new sub-genre of film called post-catastrophe is emerging that displays narratives directly analogous to our current predicament of runaway climate disruption. Post-catastrophe film sits in the space between blockbuster disaster movies that use scenes of destruction to blow the world up and disrupt the flow of humanity and post-apocalyptic films where a version of society has formed in the ashes of the disaster.

In thesenarratives, the characters are thrown into a world of unsettling circumstances in which they have to adapt and strivefor survival and reimagine the world as it changes around them. We face a similar predicament.”