Entertainment taps into contagion horror as anxiety goes viral
Games, movies and docuseries about epidemics become a form of collective coping
21 February 2020 - 05:00
As the world confronts the spread of a deadly new virus, interest in disease-themed movies, games and TV series has exploded, with worried viewers turning to documentaries and disaster flicks for answers and ways to cope. The iTunes movie download charts are usually dominated by the latest blockbusters.
But in the past few weeks a blast from the past has stormed up the charts: Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 thriller Contagion...
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