Date of Award
5-2018
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A.
Department
English
College
College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
Matthew Barton
Second Advisor
Sharon Cogdill
Third Advisor
Judith Dorn
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
horror, zombies, monleon, romero, gothic, grotesque
Abstract
This is an essay synthesizing the sociohistorical Gothic theory of Jose Monleon and a theory of the grotesque developed by Edwards & Graulund, as applied to Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero. The study begins with a series of general theoretical and synthetic treatments of the horror genre culminating in a consideration of the two-act theory of horror operation, and proceeds with an application of this theoretical framework to the film Night of the Living Dead. This analysis concludes that embedded within this film is an opportunity for critical address for the social circumstances of its emergence, and that this potential may be generalizable to other works in the horror genre. The work closes with a general discussion of findings and concepts for further analysis.
Recommended Citation
Stoll, Nathaniel, "“... It does seem to be a fact”: Audience Knowledge and a Sociohistorical Approach to the Horrific Grotesque in Night of the Living Dead" (2018). Culminating Projects in English. 125.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/engl_etds/125
