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100 1 _aTeodorescu, Adriana.
245 1 0 _aDeath in Contemporary Popular Culture
_h[electronic resource].
260 _aMilton :
_bRoutledge,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource (265 p.).
490 1 _aThe Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture Ser.
500 _aDescription based upon print version of record.
505 0 _aCover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Death as a topic in contemporary popular culture; 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; 2 'A stark and lonely death': Representations of dying alone in popular culture; 3 Celebrity deaths and the thanatological imagination; 4 The Penguin and the Wahine: Shipwrecks, resilience, and popular culture
505 8 _aPART 2 Aesthetical aspects and mythical structures5 Healing comes from paradise: Illness, cures, and the staving off of death in naturist remedies advertising; 6 The aesthetics of corpses in popular culture; 7 Into the dark side of Pop Art: From Warhol to Banksy; 8 Towards a cultural theory of killing: The event of killing in Quentin Tarantino's movies; 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; 10 Locating death in children's animated films
505 8 _a11 Death in Don DeLillo's White Noise: A literary diagnosis of contemporary death culture12 Narratives of death and immortality in the 'Islamic State' discourse on Twitter; Index
520 _aWith 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.
588 _aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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650 0 _aDeath in popular culture.
700 1 _aJacobsen, Michael Hviid,
_d1971-
856 4 0 _3Taylor & Francis
_uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429197024
856 4 2 _3OCLC metadata license agreement
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