Death in contemporary popular culture
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- Titel
- Death in contemporary popular culture
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- veröffentlicht
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2020
- Teil von
- 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"--
- Umfang
- x, 254 Seiten; Diagramme
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Schlagworte
- RVK-Notation
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- Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie. Empirische Kulturwissenschaft
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- Soziale und politische Organisation und Praxis
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- Lebenszyklus
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- Tod
- BK-Notation
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05.30 Massenkommunikation, Massenmedien: Allgemeines
71.50 Kultursoziologie: Allgemeines - ISBN
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9780367185855