Thanks to the Humanities Coronavirus Syllabus project @ Northeastern University; titles are linked to IMDB and streaming information.
Nosferatu (1922), F. W. Murnau |
I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Jacques Tourneur |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Don Siegel |
The Seventh Seal (1957), Ingmar Bergman |
The Andromeda Strain (1971), Robert Wise |
The Cassandra Crossing (1976), George P. Cosmatos |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Philip Kaufman |
Nosferatu The Vampyre (German: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) (1979), Werner Herzog |
An Early Frost (1985), John Erman |
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1986), Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein |
Longtime Companion (1989), Norman René |
Philadelphia (1993), Jonathan Demme |
12 Monkeys (1995), Terry Gilliam |
Outbreak (1995), Wolgang Petersen |
The Hole (1998), Tsai Ming-liang |
28 Days Later (2002), Danny Boyle |
The Hours (2002), Stephen Daldry |
Yesterday (2004), Darrell Roodt |
Children of Men (2006), Alfonso Cuarón |
Rent (2006), Chris Columbus |
The Host (2006), Bong Joon-Ho |
The Witnesses (2007), André Téchiné |
Blindness (2008), Fernando Meirelles |
The Happening (2008), M. Night Shyamalan |
The Crazies (2010), Breck Eisner |
Contagion (2011), Steven Soderbergh |
Perfect Sense (2011), David Mackenzie |
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Rupert Wyatt |
We Were Here (2011), David Weissman |
How to Survive a Plague (2012), David France |
World War Z (2013), Marc Forster |
Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Jean-Marc Vallée |
Pride (2014), Matthew Warchus |
The Normal Heart (2014), Ryan Murphy |
Train to Busan [Busanhaeng] (2016), Sang-ho Yeon |
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), Burr Steers |
Grain [Buğday] (2017), Semih Kaplanoğlu |
It Comes At Night (2017), Trey Edward Shults |
Annihilation (2018), Alex Garland |
BPM: Beats per Minute (2018), Robin Campillo |
COVID-19, Contagion, and Vaccine Optimism by Kelly McGuire “explores how pro-vaccination cultural products such as Contagion might in fact undermine public health efforts by promoting a false narrative, which simplifies the kind of vaccination campaign necessary for herd immunity to develop. An ethic of sacrifice and selflessness drives the public health messaging of the film but leaves intact certain individualistic tropes and plague narrative scapegoating tendencies” Journal of Medical Humanities, 2021 Mar;42(1):51-62. doi: 10.1007/s10912-021-09677-3. |