It's All Been There Before: What We Can Learn about the Coronavirus from Pandemic Movies
Since the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, our lives have completely changed: Shutdowns, working in home offices, contact restrictions, daily bulletins from virologists, protest movements, and conspiracy fantasies seem to have become part of our new everyday life.

Could we have been prepared for this?

Totally.

It’s all been there before: in the movies.

Science fiction films and series have always dealt with the future and its possible course, social changes, and conflicts in a speculative way.

Denis Newiak searches through the scenes of pandemic movies and series to bring out ideas for how to cope with the social, political, and economic challenges of the crisis.

Can the scenarios developed in film help us to pass this test—and to emerge from it with greater strength?
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It's All Been There Before: What We Can Learn about the Coronavirus from Pandemic Movies
Since the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, our lives have completely changed: Shutdowns, working in home offices, contact restrictions, daily bulletins from virologists, protest movements, and conspiracy fantasies seem to have become part of our new everyday life.

Could we have been prepared for this?

Totally.

It’s all been there before: in the movies.

Science fiction films and series have always dealt with the future and its possible course, social changes, and conflicts in a speculative way.

Denis Newiak searches through the scenes of pandemic movies and series to bring out ideas for how to cope with the social, political, and economic challenges of the crisis.

Can the scenarios developed in film help us to pass this test—and to emerge from it with greater strength?
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It's All Been There Before: What We Can Learn about the Coronavirus from Pandemic Movies

It's All Been There Before: What We Can Learn about the Coronavirus from Pandemic Movies

by Denis Newiak
It's All Been There Before: What We Can Learn about the Coronavirus from Pandemic Movies

It's All Been There Before: What We Can Learn about the Coronavirus from Pandemic Movies

by Denis Newiak

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Overview

Since the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, our lives have completely changed: Shutdowns, working in home offices, contact restrictions, daily bulletins from virologists, protest movements, and conspiracy fantasies seem to have become part of our new everyday life.

Could we have been prepared for this?

Totally.

It’s all been there before: in the movies.

Science fiction films and series have always dealt with the future and its possible course, social changes, and conflicts in a speculative way.

Denis Newiak searches through the scenes of pandemic movies and series to bring out ideas for how to cope with the social, political, and economic challenges of the crisis.

Can the scenarios developed in film help us to pass this test—and to emerge from it with greater strength?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783838216171
Publisher: ibidem Press
Publication date: 03/29/2022
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Denis Newiak (born 1988 in Potsdam) studied European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam and Film Studies at the Freie Universität of Berlin. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at the BTU Cottbus, Germany, on expressions of loneliness in film and television. In addition to journalism and media theory, he teaches management and leadership techniques at several universities. He also works as a coach for communication, team leadership, and project management.

Table of Contents

Told you so: A personal foreword 7

The warnings and advices of the pandemic cinema 19

Science fiction as a method: Preparing for late modern challenges 27

Complexity, risk, loneliness: Navigating late modernity with films 35

Unheard prophets, unheard profiteers: Self-reflective premonitions 41

Dangerous ignorance, unteachable ignoramuses and crisis-experts 55

Endangerment, demoralisation and loneliness of helpers and officials 67

Violence, pogroms, terrorism: Society on the brink 75

Bioterrorism and failed experiments: Fighting invisible enemies 87

Hopelessness and fear: Living a life without future 99

Suddenly alone: How to survive self-isolation 117

Urban iconography of the pandemic: Failing cities 131

Post-modern loneliness and the hope for new communities 143

Literature 151

Discussed films 156

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