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Envisaging Death: Visual Culture and Dying enters the expanding field of Death Studies and connects some of its key interpretive frameworks - such as issues of internment practice, trauma, or end of life care - to visual culture, and, more than that, to visual culture's socio-political, geograp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Aaron, Michele (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Subjects:
Death in art.
Death in motion pictures.
Documentary photography.
Sepulchral monuments.
Mort dans l'art.
Mort au cinéma.
Photographie documentaire.
documentary photography.
The arts.
Society & culture: general.
Sociology: death & dying.
ART > Subjects & Themes > General.
Death in art
Death in motion pictures
Documentary photography
Sepulchral monuments
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Envisaging Death: Visual Culture and Dying enters the expanding field of Death Studies and connects some of its key interpretive frameworks - such as issues of internment practice, trauma, or end of life care - to visual culture, and, more than that, to visual culture's socio-political, geographic and aesthetic specificities. Where the prevailing picture of death within this field is as a Western experience framed by its denial on one side and its sensationalism on the other, this collection ...
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443864190
1443864196
1306992192
9781306992190
144384926X
9781443849265

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