© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Some of the most influential accounts of the transition from the cinema of attractions to narrative cinema have relied heavily on the figure of the film ...

Although movies representing pandemics can be tracked at least to Die Pest in Florenz/The Pest of Florence (Otto Rippert, 1919, Germany), discussion of pandemic movies as a (sub)genre of its own are quite recent. Moreover, ...