ABSTRACT
When the Classic movie era ended, it seemed that mummies had lost their relevance to contemporary life. In the wake of World War II, the monsters of Hollywood’s golden age looked quaint. Yet this derision resurrected mummies by transforming them into a new type of creature. The mockery that had dogged them since Victorian times was overtaking romance and horror as mummymania’s new dominant paradigm. The bandaged clown who had lurked in the shadows cast by his beautiful and horrible siblings for over a century was about to steal the limelight.
