摘要: Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion (2011) positions the vaccine as end point of arc of pandemic, marking both the containment an elusive virus and the resumption of a life not fundamentally different from before disease outbreak. The film reinforces the assumption that a pandemic will awaken all of us to urgency vaccination, persuading us put aside our reservations and anxieties and the idea that compliance is inevitable outcome quarantine. This article explores how pro-vaccination cultural products such as Contagion might in fact undermine public health efforts by promoting false narrative, which simplifies kind vaccination campaign necessary for herd immunity develop. An ethic sacrifice selflessness drives messaging film but leaves intact certain individualistic tropes plague narrative scapegoating tendencies, while framing “gift” takes it out realm medical science altogether.
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