Death Goes Pop

Author : Charlton D. McIlwain
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820470641
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Death Goes Pop written by Charlton D. McIlwain and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars, educators, health professionals, and activists from a variety of fields have struggled with one of the most significant questions of contemporary life: How do we rescue the experience of death and dying from the mire of fear, denial, and secrecy that it has been associated with for the better part of a century? In When Death Goes Pop, Charlton D. McIlwain describes a striking emerging shift in the way that death is represented in such omnipresent forms of media as television - a shift that seems to be moving the American discourse on death and dying from the private sphere to the public. The book surveys the past thirty years of death-related television programming, from daytime soaps to prime-time dramas, focusing primarily on Home Box Office's Six Feet Under and its innovative approach to the subject, and from the Sci-Fi Channel's Crossing Over to the genre of paranormal programming as a whole. This book also discusses the increasing use of multimedia and the Internet in the funeral industry and how the new technologies change the way that we remember the dead as they create and sustain what we might call a «virtual community of death».

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ISBN 13 : 9780991579006
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Goes Pop written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clare Birchall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000189864
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Goes Pop written by Clare Birchall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a microchip in her left buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn Scandal' shouts the front page of a gossip mag. A spiritual healer claims he can cure chronic fatigue syndrome with the energizing power of crystals . . . What do you believe? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the popular knowledges that saturate our everyday experience. We make this information and then it shapes the way we see the world. How valid is it when compared to official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much institutional anxiety? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the range of knowledge, from conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our culture.

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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Goes to Town written by and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard K. Sherwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226752914
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Law Goes Pop written by Richard K. Sherwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Law Goes Pop" is an examination of legal practice in today's world, one that should be needed by everyone concerned with the future of our legal system and the meaning we invest in it.

Author : Chad Helder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pop-up Book of Death written by Chad Helder and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back cover: Chad Helder's poetry navigates a humorous and unsettling landscape filled with fairy tales, urban legends, horror movies, dreams, and industrial accidents. In this bizarre terrain, Chad explores the all-important topics of true love and happiness. The Pop-up Book of Death is a startling and innovative collection of poems about The Closet, a queer boy and his dog, coming out, and The Apocalypse.

Author : Adriana Teodorescu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429589336
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Contemporary Popular Culture written by Adriana Teodorescu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ruth Penfold-Mounce
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787439437
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, The Dead and Popular Culture written by Ruth Penfold-Mounce and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society’s engagement with mortality. Drawing upon celebrity posthumous careers, organ transplantation mythology and the fictional dead, this book considers how representations of the dead in popular culture exert powerful agency.

Author : Dina Khapaeva
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472122622
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture written by Dina Khapaeva and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity. Dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry. “Corpse chic” and “skull style” have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book breaks new ground by viewing these phenomena as aspects of a single movement and documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. This book links the mounting demand for images of violent death with dramatic changes in death-related social rituals. It offers a conceptual framework that connects observations of fictional worlds—including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, and the Harry Potter series—with real-world sociocultural practices, analyzing the aesthetic, intellectual, and historical underpinnings of the cult of death. It also places the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement in shaping the current antihumanist atmosphere. This timely, thought-provoking book will appeal to scholars of culture, film, literature, anthropology, and American and Russian studies, as well as general readers seeking to understand a defining phenomenon of our age.

Author : Helen Wheatley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474451756
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television/Death written by Helen Wheatley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television/Death intertwines the study of death, dying and bereavement on television with discussion of the ways that television (and the TV archive) provides access to the dead. Section One looks at the representation of death, dying and the afterlife on television, in historical and contemporary factual television (from around the world) and in US television drama. Section Two focuses on dramas of grief and bereavement and discusses how the long form seriality and narrative complexity of television, from family melodramas to the ghost serial, allows for an emotionally realist representation of experiences of grief, bereavement and death-related trauma. Finally, Section Three proposes that television has been overlooked in critical analyses of recorded sounds' and images' propensity to 'bring back the dead'. It argues that television is the posthumous medium par excellence and looks at how the dead return via incorporation into new television programmes or through projects to bring television out of the archive.