Pandemic (Movies): A Pragmatic Analysis of a Nascent Genre

Fiction films representing outbreaks of communicable diseases can be tracked to at least And the Children Play and Die Pest in Florenz. Since then, there has been a steady stream of films on the subject from around the world. Here, Slugan offers a pragmatic analysis of the genre by investigating the...

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Published inQuarterly review of film and video Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 890 - 918
Main Author Slugan, Mario
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Routledge 02.05.2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Film studies
Genre
Motion pictures
Pandemics
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Summary:Fiction films representing outbreaks of communicable diseases can be tracked to at least And the Children Play and Die Pest in Florenz. Since then, there has been a steady stream of films on the subject from around the world. Here, Slugan offers a pragmatic analysis of the genre by investigating the use of "pandemic movies" and related labels since their appearance in mid-1990s. Although he argues that the nascent genre is international, given the historical connection of genre cinema to Hollywood and the outsized influence of Anglophone popular and academic culture on the rest of the world, he undertake the analysis of English-language labels.
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ISSN:1050-9208
1543-5326
DOI:10.1080/10509208.2021.1890975