Death in Contemporary Popular Culture. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adriana Teodorescu, Michael Hviid Jacobsen.
• Editors: Teodorescu, Adriana; Jacobsen, Michael Hviid
• Contents: List of contributors Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: death as a topic in contemporary popular culture Adriana Teodorescu and Michael Hviid Jacobsen Part 1 Collective attitudes towards and responses to death and mortality 1 Thoughts for the times on the death taboo: trivialization, tivolization, and re-domestication in the age of spectacular death Michael Hviid Jacobsen 2 ‘A stark and lonely death’: representations of dying alone in popular culture Glenys Caswell 3 Celebrity deaths and the thanatological imagination Ruth Penfold-Mounce 4 The penguin and the wahine : shipwrecks, resilience, and popular culture Ruth Mcmanus, Denise Blake, and David Johnston Part 2 Aesthetical aspects and mythical structures 5 Healing comes from paradise: illness, cures, and the staving off of death in naturist remedies advertising Cristina Douglas 6 The aesthetics of corpses in popular culture Devaleena Kundu 7 Into the dark side of pop art: from Warhol to Banksy Florina Codreanu 8 Towards a cultural theory of killing: the event of killing in Quentin Tarantino’s movies Martin Bartelmus Part 3 Death as a significant narrative device 9 ‘The radio said, "there’s another shot dead"’: popular culture, ‘rebel’ songs, and death in Irish memory E. Moore Quinn 10 Locating death in children’s animated films Panagiotis Pentaris 11 Death in Don Delillo’s white noise : a literary diagnosis of contemporary death culture Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Nicklas Runge 12 Narratives of death and immortality in the ‘Islamic State’ discourse on Twitter Adriana Teodorescu Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (254 pages), (4 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429589331; 0429589336
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