It's All Been There Before
eBook - ePub

It's All Been There Before

What We Can Learn about the Coronavirus from Pandemic Movies

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  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

It's All Been There Before

What We Can Learn about the Coronavirus from Pandemic Movies

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About this book

Since the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, our lives have completely changed: Shutdowns, working in home offices, contact restrictions, daily bulletins from virologists, protest movements, and conspiracy fantasies seem to have become part of our new everyday life. Could we have been prepared for this?Totally. It's all been there before: in the movies. Science fiction films and series have always dealt with the future and its possible course, social changes, and conflicts in a speculative way. Denis Newiak searches through the scenes of pandemic movies and series to bring out ideas for how to cope with the social, political, and economic challenges of the crisis. Can the scenarios developed in film help us to pass this test-and to emerge from it with greater strength?

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Information

Publisher
ibidem
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9783838276175
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Told you so: A personal foreword
  3. The warnings and advices of the pandemic cinema
  4. Science fiction as a method: Preparing for late modern challenges
  5. Complexity, risk, loneliness: Navigating late modernity using films
  6. Unheard prophets, unheard profiteers: Self-reflective premonitions
  7. Dangerous ignorance, unteachable ignoramuses and crisis-experts
  8. Endangerment, demoralisation and loneliness of helpers and officials
  9. Violence, pogroms, terrorism: Society on the brink of Anarchy
  10. Bioterrorism and failed experiments: Fighting invisible enemies
  11. Hopelessness and fear: Living a life without a future
  12. Suddenly alone: How to survive self-isolation
  13. Urban iconography of the pandemic: Failing cities
  14. Post-modern loneliness and the hope for new communities
  15. Literature
  16. Discussed films
  17. About the Author