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  • Pandemics in American Popular Culture: Depicting Disease and Confronting Contagion

    Pandemics in American Popular Culture by Holte, James Craig;

    Depicting Disease and Confronting Contagion

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    Long description:

    From Cold War-era fears of biological warfare to zombie plagues as metaphors for contagion to portrayals of recent experiences with Covid-19, pandemics have featured prominently in American popular culture for decades.

    Discover more than 90 books, movies, television shows, video games, and other forms of media that focus on historical or fictional disease outbreaks and their devastating results. Readers will find fan-favorites such as The Stand, 28 Days Later, The Last of Us, and Plague Inc., as well as many others. Each entry begins with a concise plot summary before delving deeper into the work's key thematic elements and cultural impact. Across a diverse spectrum of media and varied representations of contagion, readers will also better understand the common thematic threads - human fragility and resilience, social responsibility and the search for a cure - connecting these portrayals.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Introduction

    12 Monkeys
    28 Days Later
    28 Weeks Later
    America's Forgotten Pandemic
    And the Band Played On
    Andromeda Strain, The
    Angels in America
    Avatar
    Beginning at the End, A
    Bird Box
    Black Death
    Black Death, The
    Blackfish City
    Boy on the Bridge, The
    Carriers
    Cassandra Crossing, The
    Child Zero
    Children of Men, The
    City of Mirrors, The
    Cobra Event, The
    Code Orange
    Coming Plague, The
    Company of Liars
    Contagion
    Crystal World, The
    Death in Venice
    Demon in the Freezer, The
    Disease X
    Dog Stars, The
    Doomsday Book, The
    Dracula
    End of October, The
    Fairy Tale
    Fever 1793
    Fever Season
    Fireman, The
    First Wave, The
    Flesh and Blood
    Future Home of the Living God
    Galapagos
    Ghost Map, The
    Girl with All the Gifts, The
    Great Believers, The
    Great Influenza, The
    Great Mortality, The
    Hamnet
    Handmaid's Tale, The
    Happening, The
    Hot Zone, The
    How High We Go in the Dark
    I am Legend
    Infected
    Justinian's Flea
    Last of Us, The
    Last Ship, The
    Left 4 Dead
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    MaddAddam
    Marrow Thieves, The
    "Masque of the Red Death, The"
    Nation
    Nosferatu
    Orleans
    Oryx and Crake
    Outbreak
    Pale Horse, Pale Rider
    Pandemic
    Pandemic Obsession
    Parable of the Sower
    People in Trouble
    Plague, The
    Plague Charmer, The
    Plague Inc.
    Plague Tale, A
    Premonition, The
    Quarantine
    Rent
    Resident Evil
    Season of the Witch
    Seventh Seal, The
    Severance
    Shaun of the Dead
    Stand, The
    Station Eleven
    Sweet Tooth
    Train to Busan
    Twelve, The
    Walking Dead, The
    World War Z
    World Without End
    Year of the Flood, The
    Year of Wonders

    Index
    About the Author

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