Cinema in facing the crisis: case of world war Z and songbird

Abstract EN

An abundance of art was dedicated to symbolizing the period of COVID-19.

yet, cinema evidently saw these pandemic years coming long before they arrived.

Hollywood films are known for their aesthetic complexity and their realistic and fictional scenarios of catastrophe and destruction, alien invasions, natural disasters, and wars.

they predicted what life over the past years would look like: social distancing, time loops, fear of contamination, the spread of false formation, politicization of public soundness, and quarantine.

this article is confined to three apocalyptic movies while producing commentaries on how society obtains inspiration from these films to deal with real-life crises.

this article also argues that media impacts the viewer's social life, thoughts and emotion, and to a lesser extent, his behaviour in times of crisis.

audiences do not just examine the meaning of a film but rather adapt it.

this article situates world war Z, songbird and contagion in the broad context of apocalyptic cinema and looks at their effect on creating societal challenges by implementing scientific theories which cause narrative shifts from worlds of fiction to real-life scenarios that are more likely to occur.