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By Outi Hakola

Zombies, vampires, and mummies are common stars of yankee horror motion pictures. yet what does their cinematic omnipresence and audiences’ starvation for such motion pictures let us know approximately American perspectives of demise? the following, Outi Hakola investigates the ways that American living-dead movies have addressed loss of life via assorted narrative and rhetorical ideas through the 20th century. She makes a speciality of movies from the Nineteen Thirties, together with Dracula, The Mummy, and White Zombie, motion pictures of the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties equivalent to Night of the dwelling lifeless and The go back of Dracula, and more moderen fare like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Mummy, and Resident Evil. finally, the booklet succeeds in framing the culture of residing useless motion pictures, discussing the cinematic approaches of addressing the movies’ audience, and studying the flicks’ socio-cultural negotiation with dying during this particular genre.

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