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	Review \| Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe by Stephen Keane
		Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe by Stephen Keane
		I was particularly eager to read this volume on disaster movies because, although the genre has long been a popular one, it is not written about as much as, say, noir or horror.
		Instead of supplying readers with a chronological list of selected disaster movies, the filmography lists -- in alphabetical order (thus ensuring that glancing at the list cannot convey a historical panorama) -- every film mentioned in the text, whether or not they can be counted as part of the genre.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/disastermovies.html (733 words)

	Disaster Online - Articles: Disaster in the Making (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rather than each film having a page of its own, as has been the case since the second edition of Disaster Online, all the disaster movie summaries and other information was listed on a single page, giving the user one heck of a lot of scrolling to do.
		A few of the potential disaster movies were weeded out and some more added to create a site which featured a more "purist" list of disaster movies.
		The news page from the previous edition was also done away with, as disaster movies were no longer the latest fad in Hollywood, leaving very little news to report.
	www.disasteronline.com /Articles/history.html (888 words)

	ooBdoo
		But as color processes improved and became as affordable as fl-and-white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end of World War II, as the industry in America came to view color an essential to attracting audiences in its competition with television, which remained a fl-and-white medium until the mid-1960s.
		The movie theater pays an average of about 55% of its ticket sales to the movie studio, as film rental fees.
		There are a few movies every year that defy this rule, often limited-release movies that start in only a few theaters and actually grow their theater count through good word-of-mouth and reviews.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/index.php?title=Film (3884 words)

	List of disaster movies: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Backdraft is an american movie released in 1991, directed by ron howard (american director)ron howard and written by gregory widen....
		The core (2003) is a science fiction disaster movie very loosely based on the novel core by paul preuss....
		Twister is a 1996 disaster movie starring helen hunt and bill paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_disaster_movies.htm (1056 words)

	If you're going to make a disaster movie, see this list
		No disaster movie partakes of all of them, but most partake of most of them, and it's hard to imagine a successful disaster movie that eschews them all.
		In most disaster movies, there's a decorated general, or a big shot from the government, who shows up with an idea of how to deal with the monster, the invasion, the disaster.
		Disasters look a lot like a divine rebuke, and so it's no surprise that between the lines of many disaster films is the idea that we asked for it.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/30/DDGRA6COFC1.DTL (663 words)

	God Save The Screen
		Disaster films are a strange beast in this respect; they fall under some kind of broad “guilty pleasure” label and for many classifying them as such is enough to make them immune to the level of scrutiny that other films might warrant.
		Outside of what is traditionally thought of as a disaster film, there are movies such as Jaws (or if you prefer, Piranha), almost a genre in their own right, but one that a lot of people would place under the umbrella of “disaster”.
		And the payoff is worth it, with the disaster itself being of sufficient magnitude and causing enough droppage of jaw to rank it higher than its contemporaries as far as this disaster film fan is concerned.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /column/index.cfm?columnID=8355 (1554 words)

	Review of Disaster Movies
		Disaster movies have endured a common dismissal by film critics and historians as “formulaic and spectatorial” with “ingenious moments of destruction invariably wasted on cardboard characters” (1).
		Keane argues that disaster movies are more than “spectacular scenes of death and destruction” because these films often critique such complex topics as technological advances and economic class distinctions as well as the disastrous hubris of humanity.
		Disaster Movies was published in December 2001 but obviously written and edited before the fateful events of September 11th.
	www.h-net.org /~filmhis/reviews/33_1/book/disaster_movies.htm (797 words)

	A Small Victory: The Ultimate List of Disaster Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This was the time of escallating divorce rates, adults-only apartment complexes, almost NO kids movies (Disney laid off cartoonists and started dabbling in adult fare), restaurants without highchairs, etc. Children were the unwanted by-product of the sexual revolution (therefore, the Devil).
		A disaster movie involves a large-scale cataclysmic event including the lead-up, the event itself, and the aftermath.
		Disaster Movies were the topic a while back on my blog.
	asmallvictory.net /archives/008117.html (1918 words)

	The List of Railway Movies
		The list was last modified on March 2, 1997; it was last posted on December 5, 1995, on that occasion to uk.railway, misc.transport.rail.americas, misc.transport.rail.europe, and misc.transport.urban-transit.
		Movies of less than feature length (say 75 minutes, or somewhat less for older films) are also excluded; for example, Buster Keaton's 1965 film "The Railrodder", and the famous 1936 British doc- umentary "Night Mail", are both shorts and so not listed.
		It is not a list of realistic movies about trains; I'm not qualified to evaluate all the technical details, but I can certainly say that many of the films have serious flaws in their depiction of railways.
	www.davros.org /rail/movies.html (4299 words)

	Disaster Movies
		The disaster movie genre flourished in the 1970s, long before effects became major characters.
		This Hollywood-ization of the 1937 disaster imagines that a bomb was planted on the zeppelin.
		The disaster film that virtually defined the genre, The Poseidon Adventure boasted all the elements of a Hollywood blockbuster: a bloated budget, arch dialogue, and an all-star cast.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/disaster1.html (1161 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Commentary :: Ebert's Most Hated (xhtml)
		But what these movies, including "Joe Dirt," often do not understand is that the act of being buried in crap is not in and of itself funny.
		It is also the kind of movie where the sun god Ra, who has harnessed the ability to traverse the universe at the speed of light, still needs slaves to build his pyramids.
		A case can be made for the movie, but it would involve transforming the experience of viewing the film (which is excruciatingly boring) into something more interesting, a fable about life and death.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/COMMENTARY/50808002 (3523 words)

	Sneak Reviews
		When a major disaster occurs onboard an airliner, a female executive at the plane company investigates to find the cause and discovers she has become a pawn in a much larger game that could cost her life.
		Her first role is in a cheesy horror movie, and the cast are soon being killed off one-by-one.
		Three astronauts awaken from deep sleep to find their vessel has crashed on a planet where man is at the level of savages, and slaves to an entire civilisation of apes who have developed speech and technology.
	haughey.com /movies/1999.htm (1691 words)

	List of movies based on magazine articles: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The updated page can be found at: list of movies based on magazine articles
		Lists of movie source material (Lists of movie source material: more facts about this subject)
		List of movies based on stage plays o...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/list_of_movies_based_on_magazine_articles (594 words)

	Barefoot Movies List
		This list is just meant to show the interested ones the movies in which leading ladies and gents have been shown on their bare feet.
		During the movie, young Marina (played by Sara Noel Herring) and adult Marina (Demi Moore) are shown barefoot, whereas the adult version turns to wearing shoes in the middle of the film, which she buys without even trying them, since she knows, that they will fit.
		However, disaster strikes again, as a family of apes stumbles into the treehouse, and in the ensuing panic, the human parents are killed.
	members.tripod.com /~a_spring/bf-movies.html (4950 words)

	W&H MAIN YARDS: List of Railway Movies
		The list was last modified on December 5, 1995; it was last posted on October 6, 1995, on that occasion to misc.transport.rail.americas and rec.arts.movies.past-films.
		The list is restricted to what I like to call Railway Movies of the First Kind: those where the railway aspect can be considered one of the most important elements in the movie.
		This is not a list of good movies about trains; that would be too subjective to be useful.
	www.spikesys.com /Trains/rly_movs.html (3401 words)

	Werewolf.com Discussion Boards - Disaster movies
		The evil "V5" monster tornado, that was shown at the start of the film, responsible for the death of the herione's father "reappears" 20 years later, striking the same town and trying to kill the mother.
		Apart from the tornados, the rest of the film is typical character cut-out boards, so common in disaster movies.
		That disaster of a movie should have never been made...and that outfit...what were they thinking....?
	www.werewolf.com /vb/showthread.php?t=618 (769 words)

	PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Road Movies
		Although roads, and particularly the interstate system, are shown briefly in hundreds of films in which they provide, as in real life, transportation for the characters, roads are featured prominently in many others.
		Many of the films listed here were located in Leonard Maltin's 1996 Movie and Video Guide (a Signet Book, 1995).
		Listings of actors, actresses, and dates come from Maltin's book, while reviews are generally based on his plot summaries.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/summer96/p96su42.htm (1788 words)

	War and War-Era Movies: Media Resources Center UCB
		In those days before television and radio, fiction films in movie theaters were the most widely shared public experience while news films presented the most detailed and potent images of military life and front line action.
		One of the greatest war movies of all time, the story follows one squad of Marines through the bloody assaults on the Solomon Islands during the opening stages of the war in the South Pacific.
		From thunderous bombings and the constant threat of Luftwaffe air raids to the landing of a German paratrooper in his neighborhood and the joyous obliteration of his much-hated school, Billy's young life is shaped by the one positive thing war has brought him: liberation from the ordinary.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Warfilm.html (13701 words)

	Silly Science Movies \| Ask MetaFilter
		Also, I think The Core was an example of a movie where the producers at least made an attempt to stick to the science.
		It was a ridiculous movie, but more I think because of the plot and the acting than because the science was fundamentally flawed.
		Not a movie, but in one episode of the TV show sliders, an asteroid was going to crash into earth.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/37108 (1233 words)

	Cycling Films / Movies
		At first the list fairly neatly broke down into three sections sections but it's started to get a bit messy with the addition of extra sections.
		Basically, if it's in this section it's because it appears on someone elses list or someone has recomended it but it is clearly not a cycling film by the strict definition at the top of the page.
		Someone sends me a movie recommendation with no other details whatsoever, no suggestion at all of any bicycle involvement, no comment on what the movie is about, nothing but the title of the film.
	uk.geocities.com /mikstar123/films.html#CyclingFilms.MainList (8512 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Genres: Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		About Action/Adventure Movies - Interviews with stars and analysis of trends and classics by Fred Topel.
		Disaster Online - Articles on the genre and information on over two hundred disaster films, including a section devoted to Air Disaster Movies.
		The Greatest Disaster Films of All Time - Beth Rowan's picks, including The Towering Inferno, The Abyss, The Poseidon Adventure and Airport.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Genres/Action (268 words)

	Amazon.com: Independence Day (Five Star Collection): DVD: Bill Pullman,Mary McDonnell,Jeff Goldblum,Judd ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot.
		When this movie was first released, my husband and I were a bit wary; we had seen too many disappointing Sci Fi movies (Starship Troopers, anyone?) to get our hopes up.
		Although the plot may feel familiar, the development of the storyline is thrilling, and it is enhanced by an excellent cast.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003Q43A?v=glance (2261 words)

	Disaster Online! - Disaster Movie List A-M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Welcome to the first half of the world famous Disaster Online, disaster movie list.
		You'll find every disaster movie from Avalanche to Meteor, Armageddon to Dante's Peak and all the lesser known films in between.
		If you know of a disaster movie that isn't listed here, please let me know and I will add it in.
	www.disasteronline.com /dmak.html (100 words)

	MSN - News - Bombs Away! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's turkey time." Those prophetic words are spoken by Jennifer Lopez in "Gigli," a movie that cost $56 million to make, millions more to promote, and yet took in only $3.8 million during its opening weekend.
		While "Gigli" may be a disaster (one critic called it "the worst movie of our admittedly young century"), it's certainly not the biggest flop ever to grace the big screen.
		That dubious honor is shared by 10 films (well, 11, including a war-themed double bill) that tanked so spectacularly that their failures shut down studios and ended careers.
	entertainment.msn.com /news/article.aspx?news=131054 (322 words)

	B Movie Reviews
		If you do not at least know of this movie then you must be a space alien.
		When the Elfman's make a movie with Herve Villachez you know it is going to be weird.
		One of the "Godzilla as a natural disaster movies." Japan's only hope is a huge moth and her egg.
	www.badmovies.org /movies (3284 words)

	ArtsJournal: About Last Night
		Carmela says that she "didn't feel like watching Casablanca anyway" and someone asks what the next movie on the list is. Janice picks up the piece of paper to read, "The Godfather." The looks on their faces are priceless.
		My favorite movie of all time, and I don’t mean maybe, is Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game, a painfully poignant look at the moral disintegration of France's upper middle class (what Whit Stillman calls the "urban haute bourgeoisie") on the eve of World War II.
		I didn’t expect much of a crowd, but the theater was full of painfully obvious movie buffs, some of whom brought along their kids.
	www.artsjournal.com /aboutlastnight/archives20050828.shtml (14327 words)

	kadyellebee: upcoming mini-series movies
		I am excited to see so many disaster-y TV movies coming up that I’m looking forward to this month.
		Although most of the cast list is different (Hello, Dean Cain, you better have more screentime than the last movie I watched!!), it should be a fun one to watch.
		Hopefully all of them can be caught on the VCR so that I can see my real shows and the movies too.
	kadyellebee.com /mt/past/2005/11/009693.php (247 words)

	airodyssey.net - In the media
		Movie columnist Peter Howell wrote about the 40th anniversary of movies on airplanes (inflight movies)...
		and mentioned that airodyssey.net was about airplanes on movies (air disaster movies)!
		Test your knowledge about airlines old and new, airports and even aviation movies.
	www.airodyssey.net /inthemedia.html (287 words)

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