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Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Issn SeriesPublisher: Bristol : Intellect, Limited, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (186 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783203819
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead FilmsDDC classification:
  • 791.436548
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9 .H6 H34 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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