Christine S. Davis, Jonathan L. Crane

End of Life Communication (eBook, PDF)

Stories from the Dead Zone

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a hospital setting. Using a Terror Management theoretical lens, Davis and Crane explore the intersections of life and death, experience and fiction, to understand the relationship between them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351684118
• Artikelnr.: 57501903

Autorenporträt

Christine S. Davis is a Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests are in the intersection of family, culture, and health communication. Dr. Davis publishes regularly on topics such as children's health, end of life communication, family disability, and qualitative research methods.

Jonathan L. Crane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC-Charlotte. He was written widely on genre and horror films and is the author of Terror and Everyday Life: Singular Moments in the History of the Horror Film (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Mortality Tale: Narrative Management of Death 2. Death as Vertigo: The
Day Time Stood Still 3. Death as Disequilibrium: Things that Go 'Bump' in
the Night 4. Death as a Cry for Help: An Unimaginable Prayer 5. Death as a
Horrible Other: A Relationship with the Other Side 6. An Ode to Childhood's
Joy: An Antidote to the Hyperreality of Death 7. Death as a Jokester: The
Last Laugh 8. Death as a Relationship: Death, Love, and Loss 9. Death as a
Lover: Eternal Flame 10. Death as a Weapon: Dying for a Cause 11. Death as
a Foe: Waging War on Death 12. Death as a Roommate: Living with Death 13.
Death as a Way of Life: Living Death 14. Death as a Threshold: Letting Go
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