Death in Contemporary Popular Culture.
With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo. What makes t...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; 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: Trivialization, tivolization, 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 structures5 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 culture12 Narratives of death and immortality in the 'Islamic State' discourse on Twitter; Index.