Description: 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.
Brief description: Outi Hakola is a program coordinator for the Human Mortality project at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.