Death in contemporary popular culture:

"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 ma...

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Weitere Verfasser: Teodorescu, Adriana 1982- (HerausgeberIn), Jacobsen, Michael Hviid 1971- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Schriftenreihe:The culture politics of media and popular culture
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Zusammenfassung:"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 to 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 in 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"--
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ISBN:9780367185855
9781032084442