Full Description
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 90 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.
Contents
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
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