| dc.description.abstract | The article treats popular cinema as a very sensitive “seismograph” of social moods. Not
only is it an escapist entertainment, but also an accurate commentary on today’s world
and its problems. Certain film genres – horror, thriller, science-fiction, catastrophic
films – depicting global pandemics prove the thesis well. Many films have shown that
fear of an unknown disease, destroying human mind and/or body, is one of the basic
human fears. It is often the case that it is not nature that is guilty of global annihilation.
It is mankind that is responsible, especially the military, multinational corporations and
mad scientists: greedy, cunning, egoistic and uncaring about others. Film works depicting
epidemics are usually a warning and a morality play. | en_EN |
