Hall, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5671-8175 (2024) ‘Transposed’: Luis Puenzo’s La Peste (1992) and the danger of inaction, and inevitability. In: Hall, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5671-8175 and Rawle, Steve ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7908-8249, (eds.) Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter seeks to explore the significance of Puenzo’s film, and to an extent the source novel by Albert Camus, for a world in the grasp of the COVID-19 pandemic. The monster here is viral and memetic, replicating, repeating and unstoppable, but by the same token, Puenzo, by transposing Camus’ anti-Fascist Nazi-critique from the 1940s into the 1990s, suggests that the enemy is a timeless failure to communicate and the helplessness that people experience in the face thereof.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR T Technology > TR Photography > TR845-899 Cinematography. Films
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/12597

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