Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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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, as well as more recent fare like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Mummy and Resident Evil.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-01-15
Mått178 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt304 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies on Popular Culture
Antal sidor184
FörlagIntellect
ISBN9781783203796

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Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. Cultural Context: Change of Death-Related Attitudes1.2. The Material: Living Dead Films1.3. Theoretical Departure Points: Understanding Textual and Generic AddressingChapter 2: Modality of Living Death2.1. Embodying Death2.2. Narrating Death2.3. Symbolizing DeathChapter 3: Classical Living Dead Films3.1. Dracula – Horrifying and Unnatural Death3.2. White Zombie – Distancing and Alienating Death3.3. The Mummy and Scientific Death3.4. Idealization of Modern DeathChapter 4: Undead of the Transitional Era 4.1. Familial and Americanized Vampires4.2. Mummy – Scientific Control of Natural Death4.3. Getting Out of Control – Zombies, Violence and Death4.4. Challenging the Ideals of Modern DeathChapter 5: Post-Classical Undead 5.1. Mummies and Body Horror5.2. Mistreatment of Dead – Zombies and Death Industries5.3. Desire for Self-Expressive Vampires5.4. Ambiguous Return of Ordinary Death Chapter 6: Digitalized Living Dead 6.1. The Mummy and Aesthetics of Trivial Death 6.2. Discomforting Position of the Viewer in Zombie Apocalypses 6.3. Vampires and Death as Part of Personal Identity 6.4. Obsessive Interest in Death Chapter 7: Transforming Traditions of Rhetoric of Death Filmography Bibliography