Epidemic Cinema - The Rise of a Genre

This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease. As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialized the anxieties and discourses of world risk that had long been portrayed in popular media, the book provides a novel definition of the epidemic film genre and offers a systematic look into the narrative and stylistic conventions that characterize it. Epidemic Cinema traces the evolution of the genre from its early cinematic origins to establish the founding principles of a genre standing at the crossroads between science-fiction and horror. It draws on close textual analysis to show how the pandemic reified one of the central predicaments of epidemic narratives: the constant tension existing between free-floating phenomena and the impulse to control and resist such phenomena, ultimately epitomized by the trope of the border. Showing how infectious diseases offer a rich allegorical frame which cinema uses to articulate timely anxieties of growingly invisible and deterritorialized risks, the author presents the prevalence of contagion in popular culture as a symptom of this growingly viral and virus-ridden context, both in its most literal and metaphorical sense. This insightful study will interest students and scholars of film studies, global cinema, science fiction, horror, popular culture and genre theory

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Release date:	November 2023
First published:	2024
Authors:	Julia Echeverria
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-254135-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-03-254135-0
Barcode:	9781032541358

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