Infectious Inequalities
Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema
dc.contributor.author | Han, Qijun | |
dc.contributor.author | Curtis, Daniel R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-15T04:00:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-15T04:00:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2021-12-14T16:35:00Z | |
dc.identifier | ONIX_20211214_9781000540765_9 | |
dc.identifier | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74928 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.rights | open access | |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues | |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AF Art forms::AFK Non-graphic art forms::AFKV Electronic, holographic & video art | |
dc.subject.other | Cinema | |
dc.subject.other | Epidemics | |
dc.subject.other | Film Studies | |
dc.subject.other | Social Vulnerability | |
dc.title | Infectious Inequalities | |
dc.title.alternative | Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema | |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.4324/9781003261667 | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781000540765 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781032205205 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781032199665 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781003261667 | |
oapen.collection | Dutch Research Council (NWO) | |
oapen.imprint | Routledge | |
oapen.pages | 166 | |
dc.relationisFundedBy | Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek |
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