What can post-catastrophe films tell us about our current real-world circumstances?

This book proposes that a new sub-genre of film called 'post-catastrophe' is emerging that displays narratives directly analogous to our current predicament of runaway climate disruption. Post-catastrophe film sits in the space between blockbuster disaster movies that use scenes of destruction to blow the world up and disrupt the flow of humanity and post-apocalyptic films where a version of society has formed in the ashes of the disaster.

In these narratives, the characters are thrown into a world of unsettling circumstances in which they have to adapt and strive for survival and reimagine the world as it changes around them. We face a similar predicament."

Stephen Lee Naish is a British-born writer, visual artist, and author of several books of nonfiction. Steve's work has appeared in Aquarium Drunkard, Film International, The Quietus, Archetype, Dirty Movies, Drunk Monkeys, Cosmonaut, Albumism, and other online and in-print journals and zines. He lives in Ontario, Canada.