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Infectious Inequalities: Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema

Infectious Inequalities: Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema

Han, Qijun
Curtis, Daniel R.

Paperback

Film & Video ArtFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032205202
ISBN13: 9781032205205
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 25 2023
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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