Brian A. Shaer
Are We Living in a Disaster Movie?: How Genre Conventions Predict the Plot of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Are We Living in a Disaster Movie?: How Genre Conventions Predict the Plot of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The Covid-19 pandemic in the early 2020s was compared to disaster movies such as Outbreak, The Towering Inferno, and Armageddon, which argue that the life cycle of Covid closely parallels various apocalyptic films, from the personas of the main players to the strike of the cataclysm itself.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 277 pages
Publication date: 04 August 2022
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Some periods of history contain so many compounded disasters that they seem to be inspired by disaster movies. In the early 2020s, the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world and thrust populations into a state of uncertainty and fear, as seen in movies like Outbreak, The Towering Inferno, or Armageddon. Birthed from the author's original research on disaster movies, this book argues that the life cycle of COVID closely parallels various apocalyptic films, from the personas of the main players to the strike of the cataclysm itself. To view the COVID pandemic through the language of disaster movies, the book identifies those that mirror (predict!) each stage of the COVID pandemic, analyzing the similarities between the films and real-life events. A filmography of the featured disaster movies concludes the book.
Some periods of history contain so many compounded disasters that they seem to be inspired by disaster movies. In the early 2020s, the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world and thrust populations into a state of uncertainty and fear, as seen in movies like Outbreak, The Towering Inferno, or Armageddon. Birthed from the author's original research on disaster movies, this book argues that the life cycle of COVID closely parallels various apocalyptic films, from the personas of the main players to the strike of the cataclysm itself. To view the COVID pandemic through the language of disaster movies, the book identifies those that mirror (predict!) each stage of the COVID pandemic, analyzing the similarities between the films and real-life events. A filmography of the featured disaster movies concludes the book.
Weight: 372g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781476687292
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