Pandemics in American Popular Culture

From Cold War-era fears of biological warfare to zombie plagues as metaphors for contagion to portrayals of recent experiences with Covid-19, pandemics have featured prominently in American popular culture for decades. Discover more than 75 books, movies, television shows, video games, and other forms of media that focus on historical or fictional disease outbreaks and their devastating results. Readers will find fan-favorites such as The Stand , 28 Days Later , The Last of Us , and Plague, Inc., as well as many others. Each entry begins with a concise plot summary before delving deeper into the work''s key thematic elements and cultural impact. Across a diverse spectrum of media and varied representations of contagion, readers will also better understand the common thematic threads - human fragility and resilience, social responsibility and the search for a cure - connecting these portrayals.>

Auteur
James Craig Holte is Emeritus Professor of English and Film Studies at East Carolina University, USA.

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Preface Introduction 12 Monkeys 28 Days Later 28 Weeks Later America's Forgotten Pandemic And the Band Played On Andromeda Strain, The Angels in America Avatar Beginning at the End, A Bird Box Black Death Black Death, The Blackfish City Boy on the Bridge, The Carriers Cassandra Crossing, The Child Zero Children of Men, The City of Mirrors, The Cobra Event, The Code Orange Coming Plague, The Company of Liars Contagion Crystal World, The Death in Venice Demon in the Freezer, The Disease X Dog Stars, The Doomsday Book, The Dracula End of October, The Fairy Tale Fever 1793 Fever Season Fireman, The First Wave, The Flesh and Blood Future Home of the Living God Galapagos Ghost Map, The Girl with All the Gifts, The Great Believers, The Great Influenza, The Great Mortality, The Hamnet Handmaid's Tale, The Happening, The Hot Zone, The How High We Go in the Dark I am Legend Infected Justinian's Flea Last of Us, The Last Ship, The Left 4 Dead Love in the Time of Cholera MaddAddam Marrow Thieves, The Masque of the Red Death, The Nation Nosferatu Orleans Oryx and Crake Outbreak Pale Horse, Pale Rider Pandemic Pandemic Obsession Parable of the Sower People in Trouble Plague, The Plague Charmer, The Plague Inc. Plague Tale, A Premonition, The Quarantine Rent Resident Evil Season of the Witch Seventh Seal, The Severance Shaun of the Dead Stand, The Station Eleven Sweet Tooth Train to Busan Twelve, The Walking Dead, The World War Z World Without End Year of the Flood, The Year of Wonders Index About the Author