Death in Contemporary Popular Culture (Hardcover)

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 thanatic themes so desirable in popular culture? Do representations of the macabre and gore perpetuate or sublimate violent desires? Has contemporary popular culture removed our unease with death? Can social media help us cope with our mortality, or can music and art present death as an aesthetic phenomenon? This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesthetic, and theoretical aspects of the ways in which popular culture understands, represents, and manages death, bringing together contributions from around the world focused on television, cinema, popular literature, social media and the internet, art, music, and advertising.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2020
Editors:	Adriana Teodorescu • Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-18585-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General
LSN:	0-367-18585-7
Barcode:	9780367185855

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