Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 156 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781003261667
,
1000540766
,
1003261663
,
9781000540765
Series Statement:
China perspectives
Content:
"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 a common enemy comprising of elite institutions and authority figures. Throughout the book, a central question is also posed: "cohesion for whom?", which sheds light on the inequality and contingency of the depicted subjects and embodiment of the characters. 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"--
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-032-19966-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-032-20520-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Kino
;
Film
;
Epidemie
;
Gesellschaft
;
Verwundbarkeit
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.4324/9781003261667
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