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Epidemic cinema
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Julia Echeverrìa is a Doctor in Film Studies from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where she works as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781032541365
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Routledge, (06 May 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 238
- Weight
- 420 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 mm
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