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Death, the dead and popular culture /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2018.
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| Series: | Emerald studies in death and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Death, The Dead and Popular Culture; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1. Introduction: The Agency of the Dead; The Structure and Content of the Book; 2. Posthumous Careers of Celebrities; Dead Celebrity Parables; Celebrity Dead Earners; Owning the Celebrity Dead; Conclusion; Notes; 3. The Afterlife of Corpses: Organ Transplantation; The Roots of Transplantation Mythology; Four Prominent Transplantation Myths; Transplantation, Bodily Control and Cellular Memory; Conclusion; Notes; 4. The Undead, Morbid Sensibility and Morbid Space; The Undead and Morbid Sensibility.
- The Undead and Morbid SpaceThe Body and Safe Morbid Space; Selfhood and Provocative Morbid Space; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Confronting Death and the Authentic Dead; Confronting Death through Denial; Gazing Upon the Authentic Dead; Crime, Forensics and the Authentic Dead: The Expert Lens; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Reflections on Encountering Death and the Dead in Popular Culture; Accessible Death; Thoughts on Using Popular Culture in Death Scholarship; Conclusion; References; Index.