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.
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.
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
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
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