The Age of Spectacular Death (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Jacobsen, Michael Hviid

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores death in contemporary society, unfolding the notion of 'spectacular death' through studies that consider the new mediation or mediatisation of death and dying, the commercialisation of death as a commodity, the re-ritualisation of death, the palliative care revolution and the academic specialisation surrounding death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000171914
• Artikelnr.: 59898558

Autorenporträt

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime, Nostalgia Now, Postmortal Society, The Contemporary Goffman and Critical and Cultural Interactionism, and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, Encountering the Everyday, The Transformation of Modernity, Utopia: Social Theory and the Future, Liquid Criminology, Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences, Towards a Criminology of Emotions, Exploring Grief: Towards and Sociology of Sorrow and Death in Contemporary Popular Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Whole World is Watching - Death in a Spectacular Age 1.
If Death is the Spectacle, Big Tech is the Lens - How Social Media Frame an
Age of 'Spectacular Death' 2. Resisting the Grave - Value and the
Productive Celebrity Dead 3. Touring Heaven and Hell - Spectacular
Encounters by Celebrities in Near-Death Experiences 4. The Proliferation of
Skulls in Popular Culture - A Case Study of How the Traditional Symbol of
Mortality was Rendered Meaningless 5. Immersive Dark Tourism Experiences -
Storytelling at Dark Tourism Attractions in the Age of 'The Immersive
Death' 6. Killing Humanity - Anthropocentrism and Apocalypse in
Contemporary Cinema 7. Now Trending: #Massacre - On the Ethical Challenges
of Spreading Spectacular Terrorism On New Media 8. A Tale of Two Deaths -
Spectacular Death and the Scene of Pain 9. Spectacular Grief - On Three
Main Trends in the Way We Deal With Loss in Contemporary Society 10.
Freedom and Unavailability - The Art of Dying in the Age of Spectacular
Death Postscript: The Age of 'Spectacular Death' Revisited