Rhetoric of modern death in American living dead films / Outi Hakola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hakola, Outi, author.

Series:

Studies on popular culture series.

Studies on Popular Culture series, 2042-8227

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death in motion pictures.

Horror films--United States--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Vampire films--United States--History and criticism.

Vampire films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2015.

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 27, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-78320-381-1

OCLC:

914150685