Daniel Curtis (ESHCC) Qijun Han (Nanjing University of Science and Technology) have published a new article in the journal 'Emerging Infectious Diseases' entitled 'Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema'.
The idea is to show how cinema has illustrated different ways in which epidemics can affect societies: fear leading to a breakdown in sociability and fear stimulating preservation of tightly held social norms. The first response is often informed by concern over perceived moral failings within society, the second response by the application of arbitrary or excessive controls from outside the community. Given the state of international media reporting of events in Wuhan at the moment, we think our focus on orientalization and othering in popular culture has all the more relevance.
Read the article Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema.
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https://www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/positively-shocking-nwo-vidi-project