As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, reports on the crisis evoke many tropes of horror cinema, reinforcing the role of pandemics in apocalyptic imagination. More tied to the zombie film subgenre, horror tropes re-emerge daily in the news and mainstream culture: the unexplainable disease, the silence or denial of the authorities, the political disarticulation, the buzz of the media, the government conspiracy, the collapse of the social order, and the big cities as vast, ruined spaces. Considering the profound changes in urban landscapes, the analogy I intend to establish with a specific horror subgenre highlights the stigma of the infected, the quarantine as a social and cultural experience, and the segregation inherent in it.

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没有安全的空间：COVID-19大流行期间的僵尸胶卷

随着COVID-19在全球范围内的传播，有关危机的报道唤起了恐怖电影的许多反响，增强了流行病在世界末日想象力中的作用。与僵尸电影的子类别更为相关的是，恐怖新闻在新闻和主流文化中每天都在重新出现：无法解释的疾病，当局的沉默或否定，政治上的口角，媒体的嗡嗡声，政府的阴谋，瓦解的崩溃。社会秩序和大城市的废墟一样。考虑到城市景观的深刻变化，我打算用一个特定的恐怖亚类来进行类比，以突出受感染者的污名，作为一种社会和文化经历的隔离以及其固有的隔离。