Re-imagining Time in the Midst of Crisis

From Sci Fi Thrillers and Zombie Flicks to Young People's Lived Temporalities of Covid-19

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2145173
AutoresTrnka (0000-0002-4779-8035, Anthropology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, autor de correspondencia), Revena Correll Trnka (Anthropology, Victoria University Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand), Sanchita Vya (0000-0003-3066-664X), Sanchita Vyas (Anthropology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)
Año2022
Volumen32
Número3
Páginas266-286
Fecha de publicación2022-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2022.2113499
OpenAlexW4312615213
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas15

Popular films often depict pandemics in apocalyptic ways, temporally portraying how day by day, fear increases as a virus takes over the world. The speed of transmission, alongside the virus’s seemingly unstoppable global spread, evoke a sense of being engulfed by the extraordinary, creating an experience of time characterised by feelings of intensity and fear, both on and off-screen. In contrast, the lived realities of young New Zealanders during the COVID-19 pandemic speak to a more elongated, ‘empty’ experience of time that lacks such intensity. Our interviews with New Zealand youth revealed their sense of time as ever-shifting, characterised occasionally by moments of fear and anxiety, but much more so by long hours of boredom and disturbing lack of structure, particularly during lockdowns. This paper draws on Bakhtin’s notion of the chronotope, alongside Bergson’s insights into lived experiences of time and Deleuze’s Cinema books, to compare the emotional temporalities of two leading science fiction pandemic films, ‘Contagion’ and ‘Outbreak’, and a range of popular zombie movies, to young New Zealanders’ lived experiences of multiple COVID-19 lockdowns. We consider how New Zealand youth (in our interviews, but also on social media) narrate their lived experiences of COVID-19 by drawing upon an ‘imaginative repertoire’ made up of sci fi films, zombie references and moral ideas of the self, which can help us to better understand how temporality is reshaped during a pandemic, particularly for young people

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Boredom · Chronotope · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Zombie · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Media Influence and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction