Infectious inequalities epidemics, trust, and social vulnerabilities in cinema
"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 de...
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Taylor & Francis
2022
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009624641606719 |
Table of Contents:
- Understanding epidemics through the cinematic lens
- Societal responses to epidemics: immorality and resistance
- Suspicious minds: cinematic depiction of distrust during epidemics
- Bridging the gap: epidemics, public health workers, and "heroism" in cinematic perspective
- From spreaders to sacrifice: cinematic representation of women during epidemics
- Between urban depravity and rural backwardness: cinematic depiction of poverty during epidemics
- Conclusion: epidemics and cinema in an age of COVID-19
- Appendix: filmography of films depicting epidemics.
