Death in Contemporary Popular Culture

Download or Read eBook Death in Contemporary Popular Culture PDF written by Adriana Teodorescu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Death in Contemporary Popular Culture
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Total Pages : 395
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ISBN-10 : 9780429589331
ISBN-13 : 0429589336
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Book Synopsis Death in Contemporary Popular Culture by : Adriana Teodorescu

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.


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