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NOTE 1: ANYONE WHOSE CELLULAR PHONE GOES OFF DURING THE CLASS WILL HAVE THEIR CELL PHONE DESTROYED AND WILL THEN BE SUMMARILY EXECUTED AND THROWN OUT OF THE CLASS FOREVER - AND EVER HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!

NOTE 2: PLAGIARISM IS ILLEGAL, IMMORAL, UNETHICAL AND NOT TOLERATED. ANY PLAGIARIZED PAPER WILL RESULT WITH THE STUDENT BEING BROUGHT UP ON CHARGES AND HOPEFULLY DISCHARGED FROM THE COLLEGE (AND SUMMARILY EXECUTED).

1. Several films, which are in some way similar to the films being shown in the class that week, are listed for that week. In the course of the term, you are required to see ANY three films from the lists.Each film must be chosen from a different set of films.

2. Readings:

Annon, David, 1975 Catastrophe The End of Cinema? Lorrimer Publishing Ltd., Bounty Books, Crown Publishers
Dixon, Wheeler Winston 2003 Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema Columbia University Press NYbr> Keane, Stephen 2001 Disaster Movies the Cinema of Catastrophe Wallflower Press
Sharrett, Christopher (ed) 1993 Crisis Cinema The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Film. PostModernPositions, Vol. 6 Maisonneuve Press Washington DC

Check out this Disaster Film Site

3. Examinations.
TO BE ANNOUNCED

TENTATIVE FILMS

Disaster from Out of Space
1 War of the Worlds
2 Quatermass and the Pit
3 When World Collide

Additional films:
Day of the Triffids, The Thing, Crack in the World, Meteor, Deep Impact, Armeggedon, The Day the Sky Exploded, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Religion and Disaster
4. The Last Wave

Additional films:
Sodom and Gomorrah, Ten Commandments

Storms and Floods
5. Rains of Ranchipur
6. Twister

Additional films:
Rains Came, Dam Busters, Night of the Twisters, Hurricane, Tidal Wave, Hard Rain

Volcanoes
7. Last Days of Pompeii

Additional films:
Dante’s Peak, Volcano, Krakato, East of Java, San Francisco

Technology Gone Awry
8 Night to Remember
9 Towering Inferno or Kameradschaft
10 Fate is the Hunter

Additional films:
Titanic, Poseidon Adventure, Hindenburg Colussus the Forbin Project, Die Hard, High and Mighty, Airport, Airport ‘77

Plague
11. 28 Days Later

Additional films:
So Long at the Fair, Twelve Monkeys, Outbreak, Panic in the Streets

War and the End of the World
12. Things to Come

Additional films:
On the Beach, The World the Flesh and the Devil, Omega Man,

Monsters
13. Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

Additional films:
Them. Beginning of the End , King Kong. Godzilla

Crossing Genres: Comedic Disasters
14. Ghostbusters

Additional films:
Horn Blows at Midnight, Mars Attacks, Dr. Strangelove

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