ISBN:
1787439437
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1787430537
,
9781787439436
,
9781787430532
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 143 pages)
Series Statement:
Emerald studies in death and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Penfold-Mounce, Ruth, 1979- Death, the dead and popular culture
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Death Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Sociology: death & dying
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Death ; Social aspects
Abstract:
Intro; Death, The Dead and Popular Culture; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1. Introduction: The Agency of the Dead; The Structure and Content of the Book; 2. Posthumous Careers of Celebrities; Dead Celebrity Parables; Celebrity Dead Earners; Owning the Celebrity Dead; Conclusion; Notes; 3. The Afterlife of Corpses: Organ Transplantation; The Roots of Transplantation Mythology; Four Prominent Transplantation Myths; Transplantation, Bodily Control and Cellular Memory; Conclusion; Notes; 4. The Undead, Morbid Sensibility and Morbid Space; The Undead and Morbid Sensibility.
Abstract:
Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society's engagement with mortality. Drawing upon celebrity posthumous careers, organ transplantation mythology and the fictional dead, this book considers how representations of the dead in popular culture exert powerful agency
Abstract:
The Undead and Morbid SpaceThe Body and Safe Morbid Space; Selfhood and Provocative Morbid Space; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Confronting Death and the Authentic Dead; Confronting Death through Denial; Gazing Upon the Authentic Dead; Crime, Forensics and the Authentic Dead: The Expert Lens; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Reflections on Encountering Death and the Dead in Popular Culture; Accessible Death; Thoughts on Using Popular Culture in Death Scholarship; Conclusion; References; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-134) and index
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