BOOK REVIEW BY: AYAD A. ABOOD5 OF FLORIAN ANDREI VLAD’S NEW FLESH, OLD DEMONS: CONTAGION NARRATIVES IN POST-COLD WAR U.S. CULTURE. BUCURESTI: EDITURA UNIVERSITARA, 2019.
BOOK REVIEW BY: AYAD A. ABOOD5 OF FLORIAN ANDREI VLAD’S NEW FLESH, OLD DEMONS: CONTAGION NARRATIVES IN POST-COLD WAR U.S. CULTURE. BUCURESTI: EDITURA UNIVERSITARA, 2019.

Summary/Abstract: For the last few decades, epidemics have swept into works of fiction. Besides driving plot lines in literature, film, television, video games and other forms of popular media, they have provided ubiquitous metaphors for the social transmission of ideological and ethical notions and the imposition of various forms of power, as well as expressions of social and cultural anxiety, especially in moments of uncertainty or crisis. Florian Andrei Vlad’s New Flesh, Old Demons: Contagion Narratives in Post-Cold War U.S. Culture addresses the visual and narrative constructions of pestilential bodies in post-Cold War American films and television, with incursions in literature, placing a strong emphasis on contextualization and historicization, beginning with an acknowledgment of the impact of the Gothic tradition on significant developments leading up to the current cultural stage.postmodernism, alterity figure, liberal humanism

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