ISBN:
9783031407321
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
700.4548
Keywords:
Death in mass media
;
Death in popular culture
Abstract:
Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture -- What Is 'Difficult Death'? -- Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture -- The Challenges of Engaging with Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: "To Show the Problem Inside and Out": Representations of Mental Illness and Suicide in Eric Steel's The Bridge -- References -- Chapter 3: Twenty-First-Century Digital Snuff: The Circulation of Images and Videos of Real Death Online -- The Etymology, Origins and Aesthetic of Snuff -- Understanding the Circulation of Digital Murder -- Understanding the Production of Digital Murder -- Murder in an Attention Economy -- References -- Chapter 4: Streaming Death: Terrorist Violence, Post-death Data and the Digital Afterlife of Difficult Death -- Introduction -- What Is Digital Afterlife? -- The Christchurch Mosque Attacks -- Rethinking Digital Afterlife Through Data: Digital Afterlife as a Configuration of the Socio-technological and the Affective -- Data Afterlife: The Socio-technical Dimension of Digital Afterlife -- Data as Afterlife: The Affective Dimension of Digital Afterlife -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: 'Death. Carnage. Chaos': Mortality and Mountaineering On-screen, and on the Roof of the World -- Binary Distinctions and Risk: Climbing and Dying on Everest -- Provocative Space and the Difficult Dead on Everest -- The Intersectional Difficult Dead -- References -- Chapter 6: Bodies on the Battlefield: Death and Combat in Band of Brothers -- Looking at Death on the Cinematic Battlefield -- Scars of War: The Reverberation of Death and Injury -- References.
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