{"product_id":"epidemic-cinema-9781032541358","title":"Epidemic Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Plague-Metaphors in the Age of the Virus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. The Origins of the Genre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Defining the Epidemic Genre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Connectivity: \u003ci\u003eContagion\u003c\/i\u003e and Viral (Dis)Information\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Territorial Conversion: \u003ci\u003eChildren of Men\u003c\/i\u003e and Viral Fear\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Bodily Conversion: \u003ci\u003eWarm Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e and Viral Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Containment: \u003ci\u003eBlindness\u003c\/i\u003e and Viral Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019109728599,"sku":"9781032541358","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032541358.jpg?v=1750779333","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/epidemic-cinema-9781032541358","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}