Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films

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 MummyandWhite Zombie, films of the 1950s and 1960s such asNight of the Living Deadand The Return of Dracula, as well as more recent fare like Bram Stoker's Dracula,The Mummy andResident Evil. [Publisher's text]

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