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oapen-20.500.12657-520172023-07-04T09:17:06Z Infectious Inequalities Han, Qijun Curtis, Daniel R. Cinema Epidemics Film Studies Social Vulnerability bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AF Art forms::AFK Non-graphic art forms::AFKV Electronic, holographic & video art This book explores societal vulnerabilities highlighted within cinema and develops an interpretive framework for understanding the depiction of societal responses to epidemic disease outbreaks across cinematic history. Drawing on a large database of twentieth- and twenty-first-century films depicting epidemics, the study looks into issues including trust, distrust, and mistrust; different epidemic experiences down the lines of expertise, gender, and wealth; and the difficulties in visualizing the invisible pathogen on screen. The authors argue that epidemics have long been presented in cinema as forming a point of cohesion for the communities portrayed, as individuals and groups “from below” represented as characters in these films find solidarity in battling a common enemy of elite institutions and authority figures. Throughout the book, a central question is also posed: “cohesion for whom?”, which sheds light on the fortunes of those characters that are excluded from these expressions of collective solidarity. This book is a valuable reference for scholars and students of film studies and visual studies as well as academic and general readers interested in topics of films and history, and disease and society. 2021-12-14T16:35:00Z 2021-12-14T16:35:00Z 2022 book ONIX_20211214_9781000540765_9 9781000540765 9781032205205 9781032199665 9781003261667 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52017 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000540765.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003261667 10.4324/9781003261667 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam 9781000540765 9781032205205 9781032199665 9781003261667 Dutch Research Council (NWO) Routledge 166 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research open access
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This book explores societal vulnerabilities highlighted within cinema and develops an interpretive framework for understanding the depiction of societal responses to epidemic disease outbreaks across cinematic history. Drawing on a large database of twentieth- and twenty-first-century films depicting epidemics, the study looks into issues including trust, distrust, and mistrust; different epidemic experiences down the lines of expertise, gender, and wealth; and the difficulties in visualizing the invisible pathogen on screen. The authors argue that epidemics have long been presented in cinema as forming a point of cohesion for the communities portrayed, as individuals and groups “from below” represented as characters in these films find solidarity in battling a common enemy of elite institutions and authority figures. Throughout the book, a central question is also posed: “cohesion for whom?”, which sheds light on the fortunes of those characters that are excluded from these expressions of collective solidarity. This book is a valuable reference for scholars and students of film studies and visual studies as well as academic and general readers interested in topics of films and history, and disease and society.
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