Robert Alpert is an Adjunct Instructor at Fordham University where he has taught courses on computers and robots in film, movies and the American experience, and media law. He haswritten extensively on movies, including on directors, such as Chaplin, Meyers, and Bigelow, as well as on other topics, such as gender, the Hollywood idiom, and the politics of science fiction. His publications can be found in Jump Cut, Senses of Cinema, and CineAction. Alpert received his M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University. He also received a J.D. from New York University and practiced intellectual property law for over 30 years. Merle Eisenberg is an Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University and a founding faculty member of the Oklahoma State Pandemic Center. He has published articles in journals including The American Historical Review and Past & Present. His work has also appeared in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which received press coverage in CNN, Fox News, USA Today, and the NY Post. He has also appeared on CNN to discuss historical pandemics and regularly teaches courses on plagues and pandemics in history. Along with Lee Mordechai, he is the co-founder and co-host of the Infectious Historians podcast Lee Mordechai is a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Associate Director of Princeton University’s Climate Change and History Research Initiative. He has published over twenty academic articles, including two in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and two in the leading history journals, The American Historical Review and Past & Present. He has taught several courses on epidemics, including a seminar that uses the current draft of the proposed book. Along with Merle Eisenberg, he is the co-founder and co-host of the Infectious Historians podcast.

The book delivers a fresh look at the ever-growing number of American pandemic movies and their apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic mythology.

• DedicationsPrefaceIntroduction1. Early Disease Movies: American Norms and Containment2. Disease Movies in Transition: Globalization and Imagined Containment3. Post-Apocalyptic Disease Movies: Pandemics and Posthumanity4. Remaking Humanity: The Body Snatchers 5. Popularizing the Pandemic: The Resident Evil Franchise 6. Movie Myths: the Covid PandemicConclusionBibliography