Crisis (disambiguation)
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A crisis is a traumatic or stressful change for a person, or an unstable and dangerous situation for a society.
Crisis may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Comics
[edit]- Crisis (Fleetway), a British comic
- Crisis on Infinite Earths, by DC Comics, often called in-universe as just "The Crisis"
Films
[edit]- Crisis (1939 film), a documentary about the 1938 Sudeten Crisis
- Crisis (1946 film), a film directed by Ingmar Bergman
- Crisis (1950 film), a film directed by Richard Brooks
- Crisis (1972 film), a film directed by Robert Bruning
- Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, a 1963 documentary directed by Robert Drew
- Crisis (2021 film), a film directed by Nicholas Jarecki
Music
[edit]Groups and labels
[edit]- Crisis (band), a defunct punk rock group
Albums
[edit]- Crisis (Alexisonfire album), a 2006 album by Alexisonfire
- Crisis (Ornette Coleman album), a 1969 album by Ornette Coleman
- Crisis? What Crisis?, a 1975 album by Supertramp
Songs
[edit]- "Crisis", a 1961 song by Freddie Hubbard from Mosaic (Art Blakey album) and from Ready for Freddie
- "Crisis", a 1978 song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from the album Kaya
- "Crisis", a 1992 song by Fear Factory from Soul of a New Machine
- "Crisis", a 2016 song by Anohni from Hopelessness (album)
- "Crisis", a 2020 song by In Hearts Wake from Kaliyuga
Periodicals
[edit]- Crisis Magazine, a publication of Sophia Institute Press
- The Crisis (newspaper), a newspaper published during the first half of the American Civil War by Samuel Medary
- The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP
Television
[edit]- "Crisis" (M*A*S*H), a 1974 episode of the CBS television series
- Crisis (TV series), 2014 television series produced for NBC
- Crisis, the alternate title for Kraft Suspense Theatre in syndicated reruns
- "Crisis", episode 3 of the 1964 Doctor Who serial Planet of Giants; may also refer to the original recorded version that never aired
Literature
[edit]- Crisis (Majfud novel), a 2012 novel by Jorge Majfud
- Crisis (Cook novel), a 2006 novel in the Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series by Robin Cook
Economics
[edit]- Crisis theory, a theory generally associated with Marxian economics
- Financial crisis, a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value
Psychology
[edit]- Existential crisis, when a person doubts if his or her existence has a purpose
- Identity crisis (psychology)
- Midlife crisis, several issues that confront some people aged from 40 to 55
- Quarter-life crisis, a recently coined similar term for 20- to 30-year-olds
- Suicidal crisis
Other uses
[edit]- Crisis (charity) (formerly Crisis at Christmas), a British charity
- Crisis (dynamical systems), the sudden appearance or disappearance of a strange attractor as the parameters of a dynamical system are varied
- Chinese translation of crisis, popular misconception that "crisis" is translated "danger"+"opportunity"
See also
[edit]- climax (disambiguation)
- Critical (disambiguation)
- Crysis, a video game
- Khrysis, American music producer
- Emergency
- The Crisis (disambiguation)
- Crises (disambiguation)