1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456842703321

Titolo

Spectacular death [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability / / edited by Tristanne Connolly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Intellect, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16292-X

9786613162922

1-84150-542-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Culture, disease, and well-being, , 2042-177X

Altri autori (Persone)

ConnollyTristanne

Disciplina

128/.5

Soggetti

Death in art

Death - Symbolic aspects

Death in popular culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy; Enlightenment and Romanticism: Anesthetizing the Corpse; Memorialization and the City; Policy: Border Control Between Life and Death; Live Deaths and Afterlives; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life - with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume goes beyond these models to question self-reflexively how the management of death is organized and motivated and the ways that death is at once feared and embraced. Drawing on the very latest in the medi



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003309589707536

Autore

Laborie, Bruneau : de

Titolo

Du Cameroun au Caire par le désert de Libye : chasses au Tchad / Bruneau de Laborie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Flammarion, c 1924

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 406 p., [26] c. di tav. : ill. ; 19 cm

Disciplina

916.04

Soggetti

Africa Descrizioni e viaggi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778521803321

Autore

Crumbaugh Justin

Titolo

Destination dictatorship [[electronic resource] ] : the spectacle of Spain's tourist boom and the reinvention of difference / / Justin Crumbaugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4384-2689-5

1-4416-2970-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Disciplina

338.4/79146

Soggetti

Tourism - Spain

Tourism - Political aspects - Spain

Tourism - Government policy - Spain

Culture and tourism - Spain

Fascism - Spain - History

Motion pictures - Study and teaching

Spain Social conditions

Spain Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prosperity and freedom under Franco : the grand invention of tourism -- On the public persona and political theory of a minister of information and tourism : Manuel Fraga Iribarne's "pedagogy of leisure" -- The power of inauthenticity : the "Spain is different" tourism campaign as a change of paradigm -- Blondes in bikinis and beachside Don Juans : from the comedy of sex tourism to a state of perversion -- Epilogue : Tourism, nostalgia, and historical memory.