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A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic

by Richard Scheib
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781915316394
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Headpress
  • Publisher Imprint: Headpress
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 226
  • Original Price: GBP 18.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 498 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Popular Culture, and Film / History & Criticism

"I have had a headache all day. I am afraid of what will happen next."

A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic is a film book like no other. It opens with the author's first-hand account of the Covid-19 pandemic and life in lockdown. His sense of dread, and anxiety about his state of health, were experiences shared with millions of others across the world. Already committed to writing a book about plagues and pandemics in popular culture, Covid-19 felt like a perverse twist of fate for Richard Scheib. Media depictions of deadly contagions had, to this point, been speculative and often off the mark; his book takes an in-depth look at what filmmakers imagined would happen and contrasts it with the reality.

International in scope, the book examines films in a wide variety of genres, from the silent era to the present day. Black Death, Ebola, Mad Cow Disease, Bird Flu - it explores fictionalized accounts of plague and pestilence such as box-office hit Outbreak (1995), as well as 'mockumentary' treatments. Whether the threats depicted have a basis in reality - the biowarfare of the Cold War era, for instance - or are more fantastical, Scheib demonstrates how the fear of contagion has provided a wealth of inspiration for the big and small screen.

Scheib, Richard: - Richard Scheib has worked extensively as a print journalist and editor. Since 1999, he has maintained Moria: Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (moriareviews.com), the largest single author film review on the web.

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