000163160 001__ 163160 000163160 005__ 20251014113223.0 000163160 020__ $$a978-1-032-54135-8 000163160 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.4324/9781003415336 000163160 037__ $$aBOOK-2025-452 000163160 041__ $$aeng 000163160 100__ $$aEcheverría, Julia$$b 000163160 245__ $$aEpidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre 000163160 250__ $$a1st ed. 000163160 260__ $$aLondon ; New York$$bRoutledge$$c2024 000163160 300__ $$a249 000163160 506__ $$aall-rights-reserved 000163160 520__ $$aThis book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease. As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialised the anxieties and discourses of world risk that had long been portrayed in popular media, the book provides a novel definition of the epidemic film genre and offers a systematic look into the narrative and stylistic conventions that characterise it. Epidemic Cinema traces the evolution of the genre from its early cinematic origins to establish the founding principles of a genre standing at the crossroads between science-fiction and horror. It draws on close textual analysis to show how the pandemic reified one of the central predicaments of epidemic narratives: the constant tension existing between free-floating phenomena and the impulse to control and resist such phenomena, ultimately epitomised by the trope of the border. Showing how infectious diseases offer a rich allegorical frame which cinema uses to articulate timely anxieties of growingly invisible and deterritorialised risks, the author presents the prevalence of contagion in popular culture as a symptom of this growingly viral and virus-ridden context, both in its most literal and metaphorical sense. This insightful study will interest students and scholars of film studies, global cinema, science-fiction, horror, popular culture and genre theory. 000163160 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess 000163160 773__ $$t 000163160 8560_ $$flplumed@unizar.es 000163160 8564_ $$s4064213$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163160/files/BOOK-2025-452.pdf$$ySin acceso$$zSin acceso 000163160 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:163160$$pbooks 000163160 980__ $$aBOOK$$bMONOGRAFIAS$$b