Epidemie, nowoczesność i apokalipsa zombie. Motyw chorób zakaźnych w kulturze popularnej jako wyraz lęków społecznych

Abstract

The article focuses on a theme of re-emerging infectious diseases (R-EIDs) in film productions and television series. Our aim was to show interaction between the epidemics, public reactions and contents of popular culture. The analysis depicts how popular culture tends to present fears of epidemics, as well as describes two other threads important to R-EIDs-related narrative: fear of possible collapse of modernity and fear of technological progress.