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…mehr
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.
Tom Zaniello is Professor Emeritus, having taught film and cultural studies, and directed the Honors Program 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. He recently published California's Lamson Murder Mystery (2016), the story of the wrongful conviction of a Hollywood screenwriter for murder, along with Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor, 2nd ed. (2003) and The Cinema of Globalization (2007).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I: Introduction: The First Thousand Years 1. Black Bishop Takes White Knight 2. The Heroic Doctors of the Pre-Apocalypse 3. Panic in the Streets: Hollywood in the Polio Years Part II: Public Events, Private Suffering 4. HIV/AIDS: The Person is Not the Disease 5. The Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020-22 6. The Politics of Death: Race, Class, and Caste Part III: Traditional Epidemic Vectors 7. A Diabolical Abecedary of Viruses 8. Plagues... Black, Red, Yellow, and White 9. Bacteria in Lingua Latina 10. Fungi Nightmares, Pollen Poisoning, and Other Botanical Horrors 11. Creepy Crawlers and Other Things that Get Under Your Skin Part IV: Evolution and Mutation 12. HGT (Horizontal Gene Transfer) and the Human Mouse 13. Zombies R Us Part V: The Deviants 14. Imaginary and Idiopathic Viruses: As If There Weren't Enough Real Ones 15. Sex with the Midwich Cuckoos Part VI: Genre Blues 16. Facing Reality: Role-Playing Disasters and Epidemics 17. Epidemic Cinema Then and Now (The NFT) Epidemic Cinema Database Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
Part I: Introduction: The First Thousand Years 1. Black Bishop Takes White Knight 2. The Heroic Doctors of the Pre-Apocalypse 3. Panic in the Streets: Hollywood in the Polio Years Part II: Public Events, Private Suffering 4. HIV/AIDS: The Person is Not the Disease 5. The Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020-22 6. The Politics of Death: Race, Class, and Caste Part III: Traditional Epidemic Vectors 7. A Diabolical Abecedary of Viruses 8. Plagues... Black, Red, Yellow, and White 9. Bacteria in Lingua Latina 10. Fungi Nightmares, Pollen Poisoning, and Other Botanical Horrors 11. Creepy Crawlers and Other Things that Get Under Your Skin Part IV: Evolution and Mutation 12. HGT (Horizontal Gene Transfer) and the Human Mouse 13. Zombies R Us Part V: The Deviants 14. Imaginary and Idiopathic Viruses: As If There Weren't Enough Real Ones 15. Sex with the Midwich Cuckoos Part VI: Genre Blues 16. Facing Reality: Role-Playing Disasters and Epidemics 17. Epidemic Cinema Then and Now (The NFT) Epidemic Cinema Database Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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