
Embodying Contagion
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Megen de Bruin-Mole is Lecturer in Digital Media Practice at the University of Southampton.
Sara Polak is Assistant Professor in American Studies at Leiden University.
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Preface
Embodying the Fantasies and Realities of Contagion
Part I: Epidemic Fantasies in Reality
Chapter 1: The Krokodil Drug Menace, Cross-Genre Body Horror, and the Zombie Apocalypse
Chapter 2: Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic and the Ebola Scare - How the CDC's Use of Zombie Pop Culture Helped Fan a Nationalist Outbreak Narrative
Chapter 3: The Zika Virus, Ebola Contagion Narratives, and U.S. Obsessions with Securitizing Neglected Infectious Diseases
Chapter 4: An Affectionate Epidemic: How Disability Goes Viral on Social Media
Chapter 5: 'Fatties Cause Global Warming': The Strange Entanglement of Obesity and Climate Change
Part II: Epidemic Realities in Fantasy
Chapter 6: 'Time is of the Essence, Doctor': Twenty-First Century (Post-)Apocalyptic Fiction, White Fatherhood, and Anti-Intellectual Tendencies in FX's The Strain
Chapter 7: Killable Hordes, Chronic Others, and 'Mindful' Consumers: Rehabilitating the Zombie in Twenty-First-Century Popular Culture
Chapter 8: Networks, Desire, and Risk Management in Gay Contagion Fiction
Chapter 9: This Long Disease, My Life:' AIDS Activism and Contagious Bodies in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me
Chapter 10: The Epidemic of History: Contagion of the Past in the Era of the Never-Ending Present
'Contagion Contagion': Viral Metaphors, Lockdown and Suffering Economies in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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