(Im)Mobility in (Post-)Pandemic Hollywood

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 brought the world as we knew it to a halt, radically transforming various aspects of cultural, social, political, and economic life in nearly very country. And even though the pandemic did not dramatically change cinema production, it did reflect the moods and anxieties stemming from the brief episode of worldwide stagnation. This study considers The Midnight Sky (2020), Mother/Android (2021), Run (2020), and Don’t Worry Darling (2022), films released during the pandemic, to analyze how individual productions process one of the most vital narrative devices—mobility—to reflect on pandemic sensibilities.