{"product_id":"9781032541365-epidemic-cinema","title":"Epidemic Cinema","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Rise of a Genre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis insightful study will interest students and scholars of film studies, global cinema, science-fiction, horror, popular culture and genre theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56434686165366,"sku":"9781032541365","price":50.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36645000.jpg?v=1760604262","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032541365-epidemic-cinema","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}