In 2020, as the rapidly spreading coronavirus devastates communities worldwide and closes theaters, workplaces, schools, universities, shutters film and television production, cancels cinema conferences and film festivals—and even contributes to the Film Society of Lincoln Center indefinitely suspending the publication of Film Comment amid the serious outbreak in New York City—in an era of social distancing, cineastes in quarantined isolation have been increasingly streaming cinema and media digitally online in surging numbers [ ]streaming services such as Netflix have seen a huge spike in viewership, with a particularly high ‘viral’ demand for disease-oriented disaster films such as Outbreak (1995) and long-form documentary Pandemic (2020), both in the Top Ten most viewed Netflix titles in March 2020 Author Biography Dr Sheri Chinen Biesen is Professor of Film History at Rowan University and author of Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2018)

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疾病、灾难黑色和电影恐慌

2020 年，随着迅速传播的冠状病毒肆虐全球社区并关闭剧院、工作场所、学校、大学，关闭电影和电视制作，取消电影会议和电影节——甚至促成林肯中心电影协会无限期暂停电影的出版在纽约市爆发严重疫情的情况下发表评论——在一个社会疏远的时代，被隔离的电影院越来越多地以数字方式在线播放电影和媒体 [ ]Netflix 等流媒体服务的收视率大幅飙升，其中对以疾病为导向的灾难片的“病毒式”需求特别高，例如《爆发》（1995）和长篇纪录片《大流行病》（2020），均在 2020 年 3 月的十大观看次数最多的 Netflix 影片中作者简介 Sheri Chinen Biesen 博士是罗文大学电影史教授，着有《停电：二战和黑色电影的起源》（约翰霍普金斯大学出版社，2005 年），音乐在阴影中：黑色音乐电影（约翰霍普金斯大学出版社，2014 年）和电影审查：规范美国的银幕（壁花/哥伦比亚大学出版社，2018 年）