Infectious Inequalities

Name: Infectious Inequalities
Brand: Taylor & Francis > Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Taylor & Francis > Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Infectious InequalitiesEpidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema\nAuthor(s): Qijun Han, Daniel R. Curtis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032199665, 978-1032199665\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nDrawing 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 f.