Death in Contemporary Popular Culture Hardback
Edited by Adriana (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Teodorescu, Michael Hviid (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jacobsen
Part of the The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture series
Hardback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:254 pages, 2 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:02/12/2019
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- ISBN:9780367185855
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:254 pages, 2 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:02/12/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367185855
