Viruses on Film: From the Pandemic Procedural to the Lockdown Comedy to the Activist Documentary
Steven W. Thrasher surveys the onscreen evolution of viruses in the wake of our collective experience with COVID-19.
Steven W. Thrasher, PhD, a professor of journalism, LGBTQ studies, and public health at Northwestern University, is the author of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide (2022) and co-curator of the retrospective Viruses on Film series, screening March 15–23 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
Steven W. Thrasher surveys the onscreen evolution of viruses in the wake of our collective experience with COVID-19.