Messages/ Values/ Ideology in Contemporary Popular Films about Viral oubreaks Cover Image

Epidemije: poruke, vrijednosti i ideologije u suvremenom filmu
Messages/ Values/ Ideology in Contemporary Popular Films about Viral oubreaks

Author(s): Dario Terzić
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Centar za filozofiju medija i mediološka istraživanja
Keywords: communication; hegemony model; cultural studies; film; content analysis; manipulation; corona pandemic;

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of media (content) has been dealt with by many communication theorists since the emergence of modern communication theories - the Frankfurt School, British Studies, postmodernist cultural studies, etc.A set of films of some time, claims Rene König, gives us a complete picture of the tiniest oscillations in the feelings and everyday morals of that era.Numerous films have been made in recent years about various epidemics, which are caused by a virus that threatens the human race - its existence, survival, distant destiny. Many of these films are just fiction (The seventh seal, Outbreak, Contagion, Warl war Z,) but some of them (like Variola Vera) describe real events.

  • Issue Year: 10/2021
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 3169-3180
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian