Epidemic Cinema
€ 273,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781032541358 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Julia Echeverria |
| Editora | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Formato | Capa dura |
| Número de páginas | 238 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,532 |
| Data de Publicação | 08/12/2023 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 258,40 |
| Imposto | € 15,50 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 273,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 2 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.
As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialised 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 characterise 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 epitomised 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 deterritorialised 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.