122. Not Just Viruses: Epidemic Cinema and Working-Class Vulnerability - Labor Goes to the Movies

Elise and Chris talk pandemics, movies and class with Tom Zaniello, a film and media scholar who has written several books on films about work and class, including <a href='https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801488511/working-stiffs-union-maids-reds-and-riffraff/#bookTabs=1'>Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraf</a>f, <a href='https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801473067/the-cinema-of-globalization/#bookTabs=1'>The Cinema of Globalization</a>, and <a href='https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-cinema-of-the-precariat-9781501349225/'>The Cinema of the Precariat</a>. He recently posted <a href='https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2021/02/15/not-just-viruses-what-epidemic-cinema-teaches-us-about-working-class-vulnerability/'>Not Just Viruses: What Epidemic Cinema Teaches Us about Working-Class Vulnerability</a> on the <a href='https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/'>Working Class Perspectives</a> blog.   Includes clips from <a href='https://youtu.be/DyLUwOcR5pk'>District 9</a>, <a href='https://youtu.be/DsgcgfFcSe0'>Brother From Another Planet</a> and <a href='https://youtu.be/4sYSyuuLk5g'>Contagion</a>. Outro clip from Brother From Another Planet.   Labor Goes to the Movies is produced by Chris Garlock and the video is edited by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.   Listen on Anchor at: <a href='https://anchor.fm/labor-goes-to-the-movies/episodes/Not-Just-Viruses-Epidemic-Cinema-and-Working-Class-Vulnerability-er669a'>https://anchor.fm/labor-goes-to-the-movies/episodes/Not-Just-Viruses-Epidemic-Cinema-and-Working-Class-Vulnerability-er669a</a>   Contagion - "Don't Touch Anyone" Scene <a href='https://youtu.be/AAgfn4CUn18'>https://youtu.be/AAgfn4CUn18</a> District 9 - Trailer <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLUwOcR5pk'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLUwOcR5pk</a> The Brother From Another Planet - Wanna See A Card Trick? <a href='https://youtu.be/lYs46BxweEU'>https://youtu.be/lYs46BxweEU</a>