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Living Dead: Fearful Attractions of Film

2010; University of California Press; Volume: 110; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/rep.2010.110.1.105

ISSN

1533-855X

Autores

Adam Lowenstein,

Tópico(s)

Modern American Literature Studies

Resumo

This essay analyzes the relationship between fear and film by exploring the theoretical concept of "attractions" and its value for a historical understanding of three seminal American horror films directed by George A. Romero: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Land of the Dead (2005), and Diary of the Dead (2008). All three films belong to the same "Living Dead" series, so the essay focuses especially on their shared temporal relations to historical trauma through issues of deferral, belatedness, and retranscription.

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