• Rasmuna Shafiee
• Vimala Perumal
• Wong Chee Onn

The pandemic- themed film has a look of the disaster genre which presents a looming threat that can be deadly. The film additionally portrays the use of a vaccine and frightening speculation about the dangerous virus that spread wildly in a short time which might claim a person or more lives. A deadly virus rises from the pollution that destroys the ecosystem and the contemporary system which these films speculate the possibility of events that might happen in the future. The pandemic- themed films contain aspects of political, economic, and societal effects in their narrative which are misaligned with disaster components in their film representations. The skewing can lead to labelling problem where the audience perceives a film genre differently in its direction and expectation. In this work, we used two approaches combined; semantic and syntactic, and social mediation. This research analysed the four pandemic-themed films and the elements that constitute these films. This study intends to propose an additional sub-set of a disaster film. The finding found that all four films share similar patterns in their narrative with other disaster films which suggests that the pandemic-themed film is a subgenre of a disaster film.

Pandemic Film, Disaster Film, Variety of Terror, and Sub-genre.

"Pandemic-Themed Film as a Sub-genre of Disaster Film. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no.c237-c246, October-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310227.pdf

"Pandemic-Themed Film as a Sub-genre of Disaster Film. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no. ppc237-c246, October-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310227.pdf