Covid-19 in Film and Television
Watching the Pandemic
- 200 pages
- English
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Covid-19 in Film and Television
Watching the Pandemic
About this book
This collection explores the impact of Covid-19 on the production and consumption of television and film content in the English-speaking world. Offering in-depth analysis of select on-screen entertainment, the volume addresses entertainment's changing role during and following the Covid-19 pandemic. It also studies the pandemic's incorporation into the narrative of numerous series, films, and other televised formats, capturing the moments and contexts in which these developments emerged. Chapters examine the pandemic's impact both on a micro- and macro level, focusing on the content as well as form of TV shows and films. Bringing together an international team of scholars, the book offers a range of perspectives, exploring phenomena such as the 'YouTubification' of audience-reliant late-night television, as well as films and TV shows such as Superstore, Grey's Anatomy, and The Good Fight.
Given the pandemic's lasting impact on the film and television industries, this book will be a valuable read for scholars studying audience and viewer reception of on-screen content, and the impact of crises on cultural industries. It will also appeal to researchers in cultural studies, popular culture studies, television studies, internet studies, film studies, and media studies more broadly.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The Pandemic Will Be Televised
- 1 Voice/lessness and Ventrolloquism: Girls’ Creative and Collective Resistance to Masculine ‘Leadership Theatre’ in Covid-era News
- 2 Captive Audiences: Quarantining with Tiger King
- 3 @Night@Home: YouTubifying Late-Night Television during the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
- 4 Exploiting Opportunities and Exposing Inequalities: Telling Covid-19 Stories in Host (2020), Mythic Quest (2020–) and For Life (2020–2021)
- 5 Inside Bo Burnham: Timelessly Capturing the Zeitgeist
- 6 Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic as Essential Workers in Superstore
- 7 “Give me Liberty and Give me Death”—The Representation of the Pandemic in Medical Drama: Covid-19 Plotlines in Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, and The Good Doctor
- 8 The Pandemic at the Intersection of the Political and the Surreal: Covid-19, Systemic Racism, and the Gothic on The Good Fight
- Index