How realistic are pandemic films?
16 April 2020
Professor Deenan Pillay and Dr Jennifer Rohn discuss fictional pandemics in various films and discuss whether they’re realistic with relation to COVID-19.
The article published in VICE explores how close we are to the dystopias depicted in pandemic films.
Division researcher and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Pro-Vice-Provost International, Professor Deenan Pillay, and Dr Jennifer Rohn (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Division of Medicine) provide a fact check on three pandemic films - 'Outbreak', 'Contagion' and '28 Days Later'.
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- Profile: Professor Deenan Pillay
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Secret Cinema presents 28 Days Later. Credit: (CC BY 2.0)