Epidemic Cinema - The Rise of a Genre

This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.

List of contents

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

About the author

Julia Echeverría is a Doctor in Film Studies from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where she works as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities

Product details

• Authors: Julia Echeverria, Julia Echeverría
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032541365
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254136-5
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Horror, Humanities, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism