Narracje epidemiczne w filmach fabularnych
Outbreak Narratives in Feature Films

Summary/Abstract: Adopting Susan Sontag’s suggestion that looking at images of the catastrophe, “one can participate in the fantasy of living through one’s own death and more, the death of cities, the destruction of humanity itself”, author of an essay intends to focus on the ways of depicting the plague, as well as on the variants of the ‘outbreak narrative’ in feature films, in which recurring thematic and fictional motifs can be distinguished that aim to present crisis management mechanisms (state of emergency, quarantine, prohibition of movement, etc.). The author is going to prove that filmmakers like to exploit narrative patterns to draw attention to the dangers of technological development, environmental pollution, and diseases. The ‘outbreak narrative’ shows the deep nature of the transformations taking place in the social world and interpersonal relations.

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