Disaster Mon Amour

Disaster Mon AmourA deepand darkly comicdive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world As anyone in the news business knows, audiences swell with the scale of disaster; humans have always been drawn to the rumours of our own demise. In this darkly comic book, noted film historian David Thomson examines iconic disasters, both real and fictional, exposing the slippage between what occurs and what we observe.

are presented amongst his collection of rare Meissen swans

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The 20 texts

Deleted and extended scenes from the Chinese-language versions of the film

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outlawed music from Angola shakes and grooves with the smoothness of staccato machine gun fire

culture and people

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and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter

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beginning with their ‘biography’ as understood by the Greeks and Romans and exploring the origins of the legends