Offering an overview of cinemas of disaster from Hollywood and beyond, this course analyzes representative films from a number of different perspectives in relation to such issues as gender, sexuality, race, the family, and the environment and considers the cinematic technologies that have defined and influenced the genre's development.

Antirequisite(s): Film Studies 2194A/B, if taken in 2016-2017; Film Studies 2197A/B, if taken in 2013-2014; Film Studies 2191F/G, if taken in 2011-2012.

Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening.