Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
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| Summary: | XVIII, 286 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40732-1 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1: Introduction to Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
- 2: “To Show the Problem Inside and Out”: Representations of Mental Illness and Suicide in Eric Steel’s The Bridge
- 3: Twenty-First Century Digital Snuff: The Circulation of Images and Videos of Real Death Online
- 4: Streaming death: terrorist violence and the digital afterlife of difficult death
- 5: ‘Death. Carnage. Chaos’: mortality and mountaineering on-screen, and on the roof of the world
- 6: Bodies on the Battlefield: Death and Combat in Band of Brothers
- 7: Melissa Merchant and Simon Order - Representing Fatal Violence in AMC’s The Walking Dead: The Role of Legitimation, Graphicness and Explicitness
- 8: Are Normative Death Narratives Celebrated, Reinforced, or Disrupted in Popular Media? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Coco and Soul
- 9: Hashtag feminism: challenging rape and femicide in South Africa
- 10: A Weaponized Landscape: Hart Island’s Geography of Denial
- 11: Shakespeare: Difficult Dead Celebrity Child
- 12: There is nothing like a dead man to demand existence’ (Antonin Artaud)
- 13: Difficult Deaths and Awkward Agendas: How Mainstream News Media Negotiate Coverage of Politically Dissonant Victims
- 14: Dissected, torn, and exposed: the death and remains of the Jack the Ripper victims in the Illustrated Police News
- 15: Photographing Death to Save Photojournalism Mafia Homicides in Letizia Battaglia's “Archive of Blood”
- 16: Economies of Mortalities: Ageism and Disposability During the Covid-19 Pandemic
- 17: Reflecting grief during a pandemic: online UK newspapers’ reportage and researchers’ experiences
- 18: Conclusion to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. .