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

• Main Author: Dario Terzić
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Center for Philosophy of Media and Media Research 2021-09-01
• Series: In Medias Res
• Subjects: communication; hegemony model; cultural studies; film; content analysis; manipulation; corona pandemic
• Online Access: http://www.centar-fm.org/inmediasres/images/pdf/19/D.%20Terzic,%20Epidemije%20poruke,%20vrijednosti%20i%20ideologije%20u%20suvremenom%20filmu.pdf

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.