Epidemic Films to Die For

A Chronicle of the Covid-19 Plague Years

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-14
Mått164 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765108529

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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).

List of FiguresIntroduction: Panic in the Streets1. The Panther Behind Bars: Oliver Sacks and Parkinson’s2. The Heroic Doctors of the Pre-Apocalypse3. Hollywood in the Polio Years: Playgrounds Without Children4. A Diabolical Abecedary of Viruses5. Plagues ... Black, Red, Yellow, and White6. Bacteria in Lingua Latina7. Fungal Nightmares, Pollen Poisoning, and Other Botanical Horrors 8. Creepy Crawlers and Other Things that Get Under Your Skin9. HIV/AIDS and STDs: The Person is Not the Disease10. OxyContin and the Opioids: A 10 on the Pain Scale11. The Covid-19 Pandemic: We Told You So12. Non-Pathogenic Epidemics: The Politics of Race, Class, and Caste 13. Androids and The Grey Man14. Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) and The Human Mouse15. Zombies R Us, Vampires R You 16. Imaginary and Idiopathic Viruses: As If There Weren’t Enough Real Ones17. Alien Sex and the Midwich Cuckoos18. Standstill: A New (Post-Covid-19) Structure of FeelingAfterword: Forever EpidemicsAppendix: Epidemic Cinema DatabaseBibliographyTypological Index of Epidemic Films Acknowledgements

Whether it be in historical films or more futuristic, utopian idioms, the movie industry has – more often than you thought – responded imaginatively and dramatically to epidemics. In the wake of the Covid-I9 pandemic, brilliant researcher and writer Tom Zaniello’s timely, personal and deeply original study shows how, from cholera to ebola to AIDS/HIV and beyond, makers of fiction and documentary movies have turned human sickness into entertainment and – sometimes poisonous! - food for thought.