Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Coleclough, Sharon (Editor), Michael-Fox, Bethan (Editor), Visser, Renske (Editor)
Summary:XVIII, 286 p.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
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. .