Epidemic Films to Die For

A Chronicle of the Covid-19 Plague Years

Tom Zaniello (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
979-8-7651-0852-9 (ISBN)

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Epidemic cinema remains an enduring genre of contemporary film, ranging from medical dramas to post-apocalyptic thrillers. Using a vast filmography, Zaniello not only details the incredible variety of epidemics and their role in popular culture, but also demonstrates how epidemics, as a rule, have been confronted without proper preparation or deployment of resources in different forms of media. Therefore, Epidemic Films to Die For is the first and the only book that extensively analyzes the history and deployment of films and TV series towards a chronicle of epidemic films. In addition to providing an overview of how widespread disease and illness have been historically depicted via film and media, this book skillfully contextualizes the contemporary ongoing moment in which filmmakers and producers grapple with the cultural imaginary surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tom Zaniello is Professor Emeritus at Northern Kentucky University, USA. He has been active as a film programmer for the Hill Center in Washington DC and for the London and North West (Liverpool) Labour Film Festivals. His publications include California’s Lamson Murder Mystery (2016), the story of the wrongful conviction of a Hollywood screenwriter for murder, Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor, 2nd ed. (2003), and The Cinema of Globalization (2007).

Part I: Introduction: The First Thousand Years
1. Black Bishop Takes White Knight
2. The Heroic Doctors of the Pre-Apocalypse
3. Panic in the Streets: Hollywood in the Polio Years
Part II: Public Events, Private Suffering
4. HIV/AIDS: The Person is Not the Disease
5. The Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020-22
6. The Politics of Death: Race, Class, and Caste
Part III: Traditional Epidemic Vectors
7. A Diabolical Abecedary of Viruses
8. Plagues... Black, Red, Yellow, and White
9. Bacteria in Lingua Latina
10. Fungi Nightmares, Pollen Poisoning, and Other Botanical Horrors
11. Creepy Crawlers and Other Things that Get Under Your Skin
Part IV: Evolution and Mutation
12. HGT (Horizontal Gene Transfer) and the Human Mouse
13. Zombies R Us
Part V: The Deviants
14. Imaginary and Idiopathic Viruses: As If There Weren’t Enough Real Ones
15. Sex with the Midwich Cuckoos
Part VI: Genre Blues
16. Facing Reality: Role-Playing Disasters and Epidemics
17. Epidemic Cinema Then and Now (The NFT)

Epidemic Cinema Database
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.11.2024
Zusatzinfo	16 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-0852-9 / 9798765108529
Zustand	Neuware