Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film write by J. Cooke. This book was released on 2009-04-14. Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre.
Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature
Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature write by Steven Rawle. This book was released on 2024-07-09. Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Monsters have always rampant border crossers, from Dracula’s journey from Romania to Whitby, to the rampaging monsters of Godzilla movies across global cities. This volume studies how their transnationality reflects an era of global crisis. Monstrosity has long been explored in a number of ways that connect gender, sexuality, class, race, nationality and other forms of otherness with depictions of monsters or monstrosity. This book, however, explores cultural flow as it relates to the construction of a transnational genre, by both producers and audiences. It also examines the ramifications of representations of monstrosity in socio-political terms as they relate to a tumultuous era of global crises. This era has of course been amplified and altered by the Covid pandemic, which frames much of the content of this collection. This ongoing crisis imbues the discourses of monstrosity, global catastrophe and societal and human vulnerability with its significant expression in artistic terms.
Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture write by Allan Ingram. This book was released on 2017-02-23. Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating them to current social fashions and trends. These essays also look at ways in which diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural, moral, religious and even political meaning. Works of literature are used as evidence, but also medical writings, personal correspondence and diaries. Diseases or conditions subject to scrutiny include syphilis, male impotence, plague, smallpox and consumption. Death, finally, is looked at both in terms of writers constructing meanings within death and of the fashioning of posthumous reputation.
Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century
Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century write by Julian Wolfreys. This book was released on 2015-03-08. Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new and revised edition provides 14 chapters introducing new modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in the twenty-first century.
Diseased Cinema
Diseased Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diseased Cinema write by Robert Alpert. This book was released on 2023-09-29. Diseased Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses how the depiction of diseases in movies has changed over the last century and what these changes reveal about American culture Examines disease movies as a genre that has emerged over the last century and includes pandemic and zombie films Reveals the changes to the genre’s narratives over three broad time periods: the beginning of film through the 1980s, the 1990s through the mid-2000s, and the late 2000s and afterward Investigates the evolution of disease movies through three perspectives: historically notable films, remakes, and franchises Analyses disease movies in the context of the development of American, global capitalism and the fragmentation of the social contract Explains the role of disease movie narratives in the American experience of Covid American movies about infectious diseases have reflected and driven dominant cultural narratives during the past century. These movies – both real pandemics and imagined zombie outbreaks – have become wildly popular since the beginning of the 21st century. They have shifted from featuring a contained outbreak to an imagined containment of a known disease to a globalized, uncontainable pandemic of an unknown origin. Movie narratives have changed from identifying and solving social problems to a despair and acceptance of America’s failure to fulfil its historic social contract. Movies reflect and drive developments in American capitalism that increasingly advocates for individuals and their families, rather than communities and the public good. Disease movies today minimize human differences and envisage a utopian new world order to advance the needs of contemporary American capitalism. These movie narratives shaped reactions to the outbreak of Covid and reinforced individual responsibility as the solution to end the pandemic.
