Name: Death, the Dead and Popular Culture (Emerald Studies in Death and Culture) (en Inglés)
Price: 119660.00 CLP
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Author: Ruth Penfold-Mounce
ISBN: 9781787430549

portada Death, the Dead and Popular Culture (Emerald Studies in Death and Culture) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Emerald Publishing Limited

Autor

Ruth Penfold-Mounce

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781787430549

Categorías

La muerte y el duelo

Death, the Dead and Popular Culture (Emerald Studies in Death and Culture) (en Inglés)

Ruth Penfold-Mounce (Autor) · Emerald Publishing Limited · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Death, the Dead and Popular Culture (Emerald Studies in Death and Culture) (en Inglés)"

Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture enables the dead to be consumed by the living on a mass global scale, actively engaging them with issues of mortality. This book develops the sociological intersectionality between death, the dead and popular culture by examining the agency of the dead. Drawing upon the posthumous careers of the celebrity dead and organ transplantation mythology in popular culture the dead are shown to not be hampered by death but to benefit from the symbolic and economic value they can generate. Meanwhile the fictional dead - the Undead and the dead in crime drama - are conceptualised through morbid sensibility and morbid space to mobilise consumer consideration of mortality and even challenge the public wisdom that contemporary Western society is in death denial and that death is taboo. Death and the dead, within the parameters of popular culture, form a palatable and normative bridge between viewers and mortality, iterating the innate value and hidden depths of popular culture in the study of contemporary society. This book will be of interest to anybody who researches death, popular culture and questions of mortality.