Embodying Contagion : The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse

• Autore: Becker Sandra
• Pubblicazione: Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (288 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Film theory & criticism; Television; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Horror & ghost stories; Infectious & contagious diseases
• Soggetto non controllato: Horror;Film;Television;Literary Criticism;Contagion
• Persona (resp. second.): de Bruin-MoléMegen; PolakSara; BeckerSandra
• Sommario/riassunto: From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts. The vocabulary and metaphors of outbreak narratives have permeated how news media, policymakers and the general public view the real world and the people within it. In an age where fact and fiction seem increasingly difficult to separate, contagious bodies (and the discourses that contain them) continually blur established boundaries between real and unreal, legitimacy and frivolity, science and the supernatural. Where previous scholarly work has examined the spread of epidemic realities in horror fiction, the essays in this collection also consider how epidemic fantasies and fears influence reality. Initiating dialogue between scholarship from cultural and media studies, and scholarship from the medical humanities and social sciences, this collection gives readers a fuller picture of the viropolitics of contagious bodies in contemporary global culture.
• Altri titoli varianti: Embodying Contagion
• Titolo autorizzato: Embodying Contagion
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910476757203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II