Upheaval : seismic, social and media mash-ups after the Christchurch earthquakes / by Terry Austrin and John Farnsworth

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Upheaval : seismic, social and media mash-ups after the Christchurch earthquakes / by Terry Austrin and John Farnsworth

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National Library of New Zealand

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Index New Zealand

Description

Performs an ethnographic investigation of the geological, experiential, mediated, sociotechnical, and conceptual devastation and trauma in Christchurch following the two quakes of 2010-2011. Situates the 2011 Gerard Smyth documentary 'When a city falls' in relation to some general conceptual issues, then outlines events in Christchurch, using the film as both a probe and a narrative thread. Foregrounds the film as an oligopticon - one partial view of the city revealed through the mobile eye...

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Journal

Date created

2012

Creator

Austrin, Terry, (School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury) / Farnsworth, John, (New Zealand Broadcasting School)

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/31905196

Related subjects

City symphonies (Motion pictures) / Documentary films -- Production and direction / Disaster films / Earthquakes -- Social aspects / New Zealand -- Christchurch / Christchurch Earthquake (N.Z. : 2011) / Canterbury Earthquake (N.Z. : 2010) / When a city falls (Documentary)

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