The Celebration Of Death In Contemporary Culture
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The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture
Author | : Dina Khapaeva |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2017-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780472130269 |
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Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
Death in Contemporary Popular Culture
Author | : Adriana Teodorescu,Michael Hviid Jacobsen |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2019-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780429589331 |
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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.
Death The Dead and Popular Culture
Author | : Ruth Penfold-Mounce |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2018-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781787430549 |
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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 popular culture exert powerful agency.
Death Is a Festival
Author | : João José Reis |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807862728 |
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This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government condemned the traditional burial of bodies inside Catholic church buildings and granted a private company a monopoly over burials. This episode is used by Reis to examine the customs of death and burial in Bahian society, explore the economic and religious conflicts behind the move for funerary reforms and the maintenance of traditional rituals of dying, and understand how people dealt with new concerns sparked by modernization and science. Viewing culture within its social context, he illuminates the commonalities and differences that shaped death and its rituals for rich and poor, men and women, slaves and masters, adults and children, foreigners and Brazilians. This translation makes the book, originally published in Brazil in 1993, available in English for the first time.
Celebrations of Death
Author | : Peter Metcalf,Richard Huntington |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1991-10-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0521423759 |
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Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to the second edition -- 1. Preliminaries -- Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king -- 7. The immortal kingship -- Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways -- Bibliography -- Index.
Day of the Dead in the USA Second Edition
Author | : Regina M Marchi |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2022-08-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781978821637 |
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Examines how Day of the Dead celebrations among America's Latino communities have changed throughout history, discussing how the traditional celebration has been influenced by mass media, consumer culture, and globalization.
Man Eating Monsters
Author | : Dina Khapaeva |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2019-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781787695276 |
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What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of attitudes toward people, monsters, and death.
Death Culture Leisure
Author | : Matt Coward-Gibbs |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781839090370 |
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Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Dead is an inter- and multi-disciplinary volume that engages with the diverse nexuses that exist between death, culture and leisure. At its heart, it is a playful exploration of the way in which we play with both death and the dead.