Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture (1st ed. 2024)

By: Sharon Coleclough and Bethan Michael-Fox and Renske Visser

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Synopsis: This book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The collection defines an understanding of ‘difficult death’ and examines the differences between death, dying and the dead, as well as exploring the ethical challenges of researching death in mediated form. The collection is attendant to the ways in which difficult deaths are imbricated in power structures both before and after they become mediatised in culture. As such, the work navigates the many political and social complexities and inequalities – what might be deemed the difficulties – of death, dying and the dead. The book seeks to expand understandings of the difficulty of death in media and culture through a wide range of chapters from different contexts focused on literature, film, television, and in online environments, as well as several chapters examining news reportage of difficult deaths.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031407321
Related ISBNs:: 9783031407314
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 12/27/23
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Language Arts, Communication, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sharon Coleclough
Edited by:: Bethan Michael-Fox
Edited by:: Renske Visser