Death in Contemporary Popular Culture
Death in Contemporary Popular Culture 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,…
Specifikacia Death in Contemporary Popular Culture
Death in Contemporary Popular Culture
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. Do representations of the macabre and gore perpetuate or sublimate violent desires? What makes thanatic themes so desirable in popular culture?
Can social media help us cope with our mortality, or can music and art present death as an aesthetic phenomenon? Has contemporary popular culture removed our unease with death? 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,
Popular Culture and High Culture