[Commlist] New Book – Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre

It is a pleasure for Julia Echeverría Domingo to announce the 
publication of the book /Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre 
<https://www.routledge.com/Epidemic-Cinema-The-Rise-of-a-Genre/Echeverria/p/book/9781032541358>/ 
(Routledge).

The book is available in hardback and e-book formats. You can download 
an extract by clicking on the "Preview PDF" button here 
<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003415336/epidemic-cinema-julia-echeverr%C3%ADa?context=ubx&refId=ad4d3e58-9c70-4547-8877-0d3f37ec4f86>. 
Routledge offers a 20% discount with code SMA41 until January 31.

*Book description:*

This 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.

*Table of Contents*

Introduction
Chapter 1. Plague-Metaphors in the Age of the Virus
Chapter 2. The Origins of the Genre
Chapter 3. Defining the Epidemic Genre
Chapter 4. Connectivity: /Contagion/ and Viral (Dis)Information
Chapter 5. Territorial Conversion: /Children of Men/ and Viral Fear
Chapter 6. Bodily Conversion: /Warm Bodies/ and Viral Love
Chapter 7. Containment: /Blindness/ and Viral Media
Conclusion

If you are interested in writing a review, you can contact Julia at: 
(juliaed /at/ unizar.es) <mailto:(juliaed /at/ unizar.es)>.

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