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dc.contributor.authorHan, Qijun
dc.contributor.authorCurtis, Daniel R.
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-14T16:35:00Z
dc.date.available2021-12-14T16:35:00Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20211214_9781000540765_9
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52017
dc.description.abstractThis 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.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKV Digital, video and new media artsen_US
dc.subject.otherCinema
dc.subject.otherEpidemics
dc.subject.otherFilm Studies
dc.subject.otherSocial Vulnerability
dc.titleInfectious Inequalities
dc.title.alternativeEpidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003261667
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.isFundedByda087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025
oapen.relation.isFundedByErasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
oapen.relation.isbn9781000540765
oapen.relation.isbn9781032205205
oapen.relation.isbn9781032199665
oapen.relation.isbn9781003261667
oapen.collectionDutch Research Council (NWO)
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages166


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