Death in Contemporary Popular Culture (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture)

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Synopsis
With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo. What makes thanatic themes so desirable in popular culture? Do representations of the macabre and gore perpetuate or sublimate violent desires? Has contemporary popular culture removed our unease with death? Can social media help us cope with our mortality, or can music and art present death as an aesthetic phenomenon? This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesthetic, and theoretical aspects of the ways in which popular culture understands, represents, and manages death, bringing together contributions from around the world focused on television, cinema, popular literature, social media and the internet, art, music, and advertising.
Copyright:
2020

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780429589331
Related ISBNs:
9780429197024, 9780367185855, 9780367185855
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Adriana Teodorescu and Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Adriana Teodorescu
Edited by:
Michael Hviid Jacobsen

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