This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesthetic and theoretical aspects of the ways in which in popular culture understands, represents and manages death, bringing together contributions from around the world focused, including television, cinema, popular literature and advertising.
This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesthetic and theoretical aspects of the ways in which in popular culture understands, represents and manages death, bringing together contributions from around the world focused, including television, cinema, popular literature and advertising.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
Adriana Teodorescu is Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Sociology at Babe¿-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is the editor of Death within the Text: Social, Philosophical and Aesthetic Approaches to Literature, Death Representations in Literature. Forms and Theories and co-editor of Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe and Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe: Volume 2 . Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime and Postmortal Society and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, Encountering the Everyday , The Transformation of Modernity, Utopia: Social Theory and the Future, Liquid Criminology , Emotions and Crime: Towards a Criminology of the Emotions, Exploring Grief: Towards a Sociology of Sorrow, and Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Contributors Preface and acknowledgement 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: Trivialisation, Tivolisation 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 Part 2: Aesthetical aspects and mythical structures 5. 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 11. Death in Don Delillo's White Noise: A Literary Diagnosis of Contemporary Death Culture 12. Narratives of Death and Immortality in the 'Islamic State' Discourse on Twitter Index
List of Contributors Preface and acknowledgement 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: Trivialisation, Tivolisation 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 Part 2: Aesthetical aspects and mythical structures 5. 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 11. Death in Don Delillo's White Noise: A Literary Diagnosis of Contemporary Death Culture 12. Narratives of Death and Immortality in the 'Islamic State' Discourse on Twitter Index
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