It’s All Been There Before

Since the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, our lives have completely changed: Shutdowns, working in home offices, contact restrictions, daily bulletins from virologists, protest movements, and conspiracy fantasies seem to have become part of our new everyday life.

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Could we have been prepared for this?

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Totally.

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It’s all been there before: in the movies.

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Science fiction films and series have always dealt with the future and its possible course, social changes, and conflicts in a speculative way.

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Denis Newiak searches through the scenes of pandemic movies and series to bring out ideas for how to cope with the social, political, and economic challenges of the crisis.

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Can the scenarios developed in film help us to pass this test—and to emerge from it with greater strength?