- 288 pages
- English
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Panic in the Streets
- 1 The Panther behind Bars: Oliver Sacks and Parkinson’s
- 2 The Heroic Doctors of the Pre-apocalypse
- 3 Hollywood in the Polio Years: Playgrounds without Children
- 4 A Diabolical Abecedary of Viruses
- 5 Plagues . . . Black, Red, Yellow, and White
- 6 Bacteria in Lingua Latina
- 7 Fungal Nightmares, Pollen Poisoning, and Other Botanical Horrors
- 8 Creepy Crawlers and Other Things That Get under Your Skin
- 9 HIV/AIDS and STDs: The Person Is Not the Disease
- 10 OxyContin and the Opioids: A 10 on the Pain Scale
- 11 The Covid-19 Pandemic: We Told You So
- 12 Nonpathogenic Epidemics: The Politics of Race, Class, and Caste
- 13 Androids and the Gray Man
- 14 Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Human Mouse
- 15 Zombies Я Us, Vampires R You
- 16 Imaginary and Idiopathic Viruses: As If There Weren’t Enough Real Ones
- 17 Alien Sex and the Midwich Cuckoos
- 18 Stillstand: A New (Post-Covid-19) Structure of Feeling
- Afterword: Forever Epidemics
- Appendix: Epidemic Cinema Database
- Bibliography
- Typological Index of Epidemic Films
- Copyright
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