Zamišljanje epidemije: antropološka analiza predstava o zaraznim bolestima u popularnoj kulturi na primeru filmova o zombijima
Imagining an epidemic: anthropological analysis of infectious disease representations in popular culture through the example of zombie movies
Abstract
Osnovna istraživačka ideja disertacije jeste antropološka analiza filmskog
konstrukta zombija i epidemiološke apokalipse narativa o zombijima, zasnovana na stanovištu
prema kojem popularna kultura, odnosno filmska produkcija, metaforičkim imaginacijama i
reprezentacijama govori o savremenom, globalnom društvu. Fenomen zombija se u radu
posmatra i upotrebljava kao analitičko sredstvo, odnosno kao konstrukt popularne kulture koji
metaforički govori o određenim društvenim diskursima i anksioznostima, poput straha od
globalnog širenja infektivnih oboljenja, društvenog kolapsa, gubitka identiteta usled oboljenja
i slično. Analizom filmskih narativa putem teorijsko-metodoloških stanovišta medicinske
antropologije i socijalne epidemiologije, razotkrivaju se načini na koje popularna kultura
konstruiše predstave o konceptima i odnosima bolesti i zdravlja, kao i predstave o virusima,
njihovom pojavljivanju i širenju unutar društvenih zajednica, metodama sprečavanja i
zaustavljanja epidemija infe...
The main research idea behind this dissertation is anthropological analysis of
cinematic zombies and notion of epidemiological apocalypse in zombie narratives, based on
the point of view through which popular culture uses metaphorical and imagined frameworks
in order to represent contemporary, global society and its fundamental discourses. In the
analysis, the phenomenon of zombies is conceived as an analytical instrument and metaphorical
medium, that is, as a pop-cultural construct that testifies about certain social discourses and
anxieties, such as fear of infectious disease spreading, social collapse, identity loss due to
illness etc. By using the theoretical and methodological framework from the fields of medical
anthropology and social epidemiology, in order to analyze cinematic narratives, dissertation
reveals the ways in which popular culture constructs and distributes certain views about the
concepts and relationships between health and disease, viruses, their appearance and s...