Death in Contemporary Popular Culture

Death in Contemporary Popular Culture

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid (Aalborg University, Denmark); Teodorescu, Adriana

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2019

280

Dura

Inglês

9780367185855

Pré-lançamento - envio 15 a 20 dias após a sua edição

Descrição não disponível.
Contents Preface and acknowledgements List of Contributors 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 - Trivialisation, Tivolisation 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 Eileen 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
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.