{"product_id":"9781576877364","title":"Such Mean Estate","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy lies He in such mean estate\u003cbr\u003eWhere ox and ass are feeding?\u003cbr\u003eGood Christian, fear: for sinners here\u003cbr\u003eThe silent Word is pleading.\u003cbr\u003e—Willam Chatterton Dix, \"What Child Is This?\", 1865\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisaster can be explosive and theatrical or quiet and ominous. The photographs that make up \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuch Mean Estate \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eare images appropriated from films about apocalypse. However, rather than a survey of disaster movies, they create a narrative from specific frames whose contents range from high drama to the banal. When taken as a whole, the conjunctions and themes of the project create their own terms and exist within a framework that is not strictly defined by their source.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese photographs also transform the cinema, which has grand scale and mass-cultural scope, into an object that is personal and intimate. The pictures, a somewhat irreverent homage to these films, are a dissection of entertainment that is fantastic but also functions as a warning and—possibly—a harbinger of things to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe films cited in this body of work are about the cataclysmic destruction caused by human interference or negligence. The agents of such destruction vary in form: unstable weather and atmosphere; global poverty; nuclear fallout; and chemical or disease-induced pestilence including, in extreme cases, zombie hordes. Though the tones of such films range from somber and disturbing, to gory, to campy and humorous, they often reach the same conclusion of extreme or total annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"powerHouse Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056685957360,"sku":"9781576877364","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781576877364_p0.jpg?v=1763794382","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781576877364","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}