Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films
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Word Count
46,000 words, Guess
Page Count
184 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781783203796
- ISBN-10178320379X
- OCLC Control Number896907422
- Better World Books9781783203796
- Open LibraryOL29551476M
Classifications
- LCCPN1995.9.D37
- LCCPN1995.9.H6 H35 2015
Description
Zombies, vampires, and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence and audiences' hunger for such films tell us about American views of death? Here, Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. She focuses on films from the 1930s, including Dracula, The Mummy, and White Zombie, films of the 1950s and 1960s such as Night of the Living Dead and The Return of Dracula, and more recent fare like Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Mummy, and Resident Evil. Ultimately, the book succeeds in framing the tradition of living dead films, discussing the cinematic processes of addressing the films' viewers, and analyzing the films' socio-cultural negotiation with death in this specific genre. -- Provided by publisher.
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