Hollywood Will Play a Role in Memorializing the Pandemic
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variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAlmost inevitably, Hollywood will help shape the cultural memory of the COVID-19 pandemic.But how?Several quarantine films have already come out, but they haven’t quite hit the mark.
They emphasize social isolation, while foregrounding their production constraints, or delve into disaster tropes, like the much-panned “Songbird.”It will take some time — and the pandemic will have to recede — before anyone can see it clearly.Joshua Loomis, author of “Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power over Humanity,” argues the pandemic will be memorialized much the way the polio outbreaks of the 1930s through the 1950s are remembered.“If you look at artistic production, it was really centered around the heroes of.
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