Epidemic Cinema : The Rise of a Genre Hardback
by Julia Echeverria
Part of the Routledge Advances in Film Studies series
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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.
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- Pages:238 pages, 19 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:08/12/2023
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:238 pages, 19 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
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- Publication Date:08/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781032541358