Epidemic Cinema (eBook)

The Rise of a Genre

Julia Echeverria (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
248 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-003-82376-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialised the anxieties and discourses of world risk that had long been portrayed in popular media, the book provides a novel definition of the epidemic film genre and offers a systematic look into the narrative and stylistic conventions that characterise it. Epidemic Cinema traces the evolution of the genre from its early cinematic origins to establish the founding principles of a genre standing at the crossroads between science-fiction and horror. It draws on close textual analysis to show how the pandemic reified one of the central predicaments of epidemic narratives: the constant tension existing between free-floating phenomena and the impulse to control and resist such phenomena, ultimately epitomised by the trope of the border. Showing how infectious diseases offer a rich allegorical frame which cinema uses to articulate timely anxieties of growingly invisible and deterritorialised risks, the author presents the prevalence of contagion in popular culture as a symptom of this growingly viral and virus-ridden context, both in its most literal and metaphorical sense.This insightful study will interest students and scholars of film studies, global cinema, science-fiction, horror, popular culture and genre theory.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-003-82376-9 / 1003823769
• ISBN-13: 978-1-003-82376-6 / 9781003823766