TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hakola,Outi
AU  - Johnson,Bruce
AU  - Kallioniemi,Kari
TI  - Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films
T2  - Issn Series
SN  - 9781783203819
AV  - PN1995.9 .H6 H34 2015 
U1  - 791.436548 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Intellect, Limited
KW  - Death in motion pictures
KW  - Horror films -- United States -- History and criticism
KW  - Mummy films -- United States -- History and criticism
KW  - Vampire films -- United States -- History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1. Cultural Context: Change of Death-Related Attitudes -- 1.2. The Material: Living Dead Films -- 1.3. Theoretical Departure Points: Understanding Textual and Generic Addressing -- Chapter 2: Modality of Living Death -- 2.1. Embodying Death -- 2.2. Narrating Death -- 2.3. Symbolizing Death -- Chapter 3: Classical Living Dead Films -- 3.1. Dracula - Horrifying and Unnatural Death -- 3.2. White Zombie - Distancing and Alienating Death -- 3.3. The Mummy and Scientific Death -- 3.4. Idealization of Modern Death -- Chapter 4: Undead of the Transitional Era -- 4.1. Familial and Americanized Vampires -- 4.2. Mummy - Scientific Control of Natural Death -- 4.3. Getting Out of Control - Zombies, Violence and Death -- 4.4. Challenging the Ideals of Modern Death -- Chapter 5: Post-Classical Undead -- 5.1. Mummies and Body Horror -- 5.2. Mistreatment of Dead - Zombies and Death Industries -- 5.3. Desire for Self-Expressive Vampires -- 5.4. 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 -- Back Cover
N2  - Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. The book frames the tradition of living dead films, discusses the cinematic processes of addressing the viewers, and analyses the films' socio-cultural negotiation with death
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