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ISBN
9781399521659

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Publisher
Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-10
1399521659
ISBN-13
9781399521659
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25061232627

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Diseased Cinema : Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies
Subject
Film / Reference, Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Author
Merle Eisenberg, Robert Alpert, Lee Mordechai
Subject Area
Performing Arts, Social Science
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Scholarly & Professional
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The book delivers a fresh look at the ever-growing number of American pandemic movies and their apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic mythology., Diseased Cinema tracks the cinematic fascination with disease throughout the history of film, showing how depictions of communicable disease mutate to reflect changing social and political concerns and how they, in turn, shape expectations about and the experience of actual disease outbreaks. An important work that reveals the power of cinema and the figure of disease to shape a cultural imagination.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
791.436561
Table Of Content
Dedications Preface Introduction 1. Early Disease Movies: American Norms and Containment 2. Disease Movies in Transition: Globalization and Imagined Containment 3. Post-Apocalyptic Disease Movies: Pandemics and Posthumanity 4. Remaking Humanity: The Body Snatchers 5. Popularizing the Pandemic: The Resident Evil Franchise 6. Movie Myths: the Covid Pandemic Conclusion Bibliography
Synopsis
Discusses how the depiction of diseases in movies has changed over the last century and what these changes reveal about American culture, American movies about infectious diseases have reflected and driven dominant cultural narratives during the past century. These movies - both real pandemics and imagined zombie outbreaks - have become wildly popular since the beginning of the 21st century. They have shifted from featuring a contained outbreak to an imagined containment of a known disease to a globalized, uncontainable pandemic of an unknown origin. Movie narratives have changed from identifying and solving social problems to a despair and acceptance of America's failure to fulfil its historic social contract. Movies reflect and drive developments in American capitalism that increasingly advocates for individuals and their families, rather than communities and the public good. Disease movies today minimize human differences and envisage a utopian new world order to advance the needs of contemporary American capitalism. These movie narratives shaped reactions to the outbreak of Covid and reinforced individual responsibility as the solution to end the pandemic.
LC Classification Number
PN1995.9.D56

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