No Safe Space: Zombie Film Tropes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
| Autor: | Lúcio Reis Filho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cultural Studies
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak History Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Zombie 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Media studies Globe 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Space (commercial competition) Urban Studies Movie theater medicine.anatomical_structure Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Pandemic medicine business 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Space and Culture. 23:253-258 |
| ISSN: | 1552-8308 1206-3312 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1206331220938642 |
| Popis: | As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, reports on the crisis evoke many tropes of horror cinema, reinforcing the role of pandemics in apocalyptic imagination. More tied to the zombie film subgenre, horror tropes re-emerge daily in the news and mainstream culture: the unexplainable disease, the silence or denial of the authorities, the political disarticulation, the buzz of the media, the government conspiracy, the collapse of the social order, and the big cities as vast, ruined spaces. Considering the profound changes in urban landscapes, the analogy I intend to establish with a specific horror subgenre highlights the stigma of the infected, the quarantine as a social and cultural experience, and the segregation inherent in it. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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