Death as Entertainment

Young People and Death Awareness
Herausgeber: R. Schott, Gareth

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media depictions of death and dying. It will appeal to researchers and students interested in new media and its cultural and psychological impact. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Mortality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781032462561
• ISBN-10: 1032462566
• Artikelnr.: 67680150

Autorenporträt

Gareth R. Schott is Professor in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa, New Zealand. As a media psychologist, he holds an interest in both the psychological impact of media but also the role of creative media in exploring human psychology and psychological knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction- 'I know death. He's got many faces:' The presence of death in
young peoples' media 1. Under pressure: representations of student suicide
in British documentary television 2. 'Closed world, wounds open. Open
world, wounds closed': metacultural commentaries on digital media and youth
suicide in Jan Komasa's Suicide Room 3. Suicide-memes as exemplars of the
everyday inauthentic relationship with death 4. From heterosexualisation to
memorialisation: queer history and moral maturation in Young Adult
literature about the AIDS crisis 5. 'Death from all sides': spectacle,
morality, and trauma in Suzanne Collins' the Hunger Games trilogy 6. Death
and the Plague in The Story of Wanderings 7. 'I can't breathe': the
biopolitics and necropolitics of breath during 2020