ISBN-13: 9781032541358 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.
This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Plague-Metaphors in the Age of the Virus
Chapter 2. The Origins of the Genre
Chapter 3. Defining the Epidemic Genre
Chapter 4. Connectivity: Contagion and Viral (Dis)Information
Chapter 5. Territorial Conversion: Children of Men and Viral Fear
Chapter 6. Bodily Conversion: Warm Bodies and Viral Love
Chapter 7. Containment: Blindness and Viral Media
Conclusion
Julia Echeverría is Doctor in Film Studies from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where she works as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities
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