Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture / / edited by Sharon Coleclough, Bethan Michael-Fox, and Renske Visser

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Macmillan Palgrave, , [2024]; ©2024
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 pages)
• Disciplina: 700.4548
• Soggetto topico: Death in mass media; Death in popular culture
• Persona (resp. second.): ColecloughSharon; Michael-FoxBethan; VisserRenske
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture -- What Is 'Difficult Death'? -- Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture -- The Challenges of Engaging with Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: "To Show the Problem Inside and Out": Representations of Mental Illness and Suicide in Eric Steel's The Bridge -- References -- Chapter 3: Twenty-First-Century Digital Snuff: The Circulation of Images and Videos of Real Death Online -- The Etymology, Origins and Aesthetic of Snuff -- Understanding the Circulation of Digital Murder -- Understanding the Production of Digital Murder -- Murder in an Attention Economy -- References -- Chapter 4: Streaming Death: Terrorist Violence, Post-death Data and the Digital Afterlife of Difficult Death -- Introduction -- What Is Digital Afterlife? -- The Christchurch Mosque Attacks -- Rethinking Digital Afterlife Through Data: Digital Afterlife as a Configuration of the Socio-technological and the Affective -- Data Afterlife: The Socio-technical Dimension of Digital Afterlife -- Data as Afterlife: The Affective Dimension of Digital Afterlife -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: 'Death. Carnage. Chaos': Mortality and Mountaineering On-screen, and on the Roof of the World -- Binary Distinctions and Risk: Climbing and Dying on Everest -- Provocative Space and the Difficult Dead on Everest -- The Intersectional Difficult Dead -- References -- Chapter 6: Bodies on the Battlefield: Death and Combat in Band of Brothers -- Looking at Death on the Cinematic Battlefield -- Scars of War: The Reverberation of Death and Injury -- References. ; Chapter 7: Representing Fatal Violence in AMC's The Walking Dead: The Role of Legitimation, Graphicness and Explicitness -- Television Violence, Audience Interpretation and Media Effects -- The Walking Dead at Its Most Violent -- The Unnatural Deaths of Children in The Walking Dead: Careful Justification and Legitimation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: How Are Normative Deaths Celebrated, Reinforced, or Disrupted in Children's Media? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Coco and Soul -- Introduction -- Children, Development and Death -- Communicating Death with Children -- Death in the Magical Kingdom -- Findings -- Problematic Cultural Depictions -- A Trivialised Biological and Emotional Death -- Rule of Temporariness -- 'I'm a No-Body, Get It?' -- A Disciplined Death -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Hashtag Feminism: Challenging Rape and Femicide in South Africa -- #MeToo and Black Twitter -- High-Profile Rape Case: #JusticeForKhwezi -- Student Protests Against Rape -- #MenAreTrash -- #RememberingNene -- Wake-Up Call to Government Leaders and Men -- Women Reject Indoctrination and Being Silenced -- #RememberKhwezi and No to Rape Culture! -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: 'A Prison for the Dead': Hart Island and Spatial Histories of Marginalization -- Introduction -- Histories of Marginalization -- Landscapes of Marginalization -- Double Indignity: Erasing the 'Difficult' Dead -- Conclusion: Challenging Difficult Death -- References -- Chapter 11: Hamnet Shakespeare: A Difficult Dead Celebrity Child -- References -- Chapter 12: 'There Is Nothing like a Dead Man to Demand Existence' (Antonin Artaud) -- References -- Chapter 13: Difficult Deaths and Awkward Agendas: How Mainstream News Media Negotiate Coverage of Politically Dissonant Victims -- Negotiation Tactics -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- References. ; Chapter 14: Dissected, Torn, and Exposed: The Death and Remains of the Jack the Ripper Victims in The Illustrated Police News -- Introduction -- The Torn and Open Female Body -- The 'Disposability' of Marginalised Bodies -- Double Victimisation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: Photographing Death to Save Photojournalism: Mafia Homicides in Letizia Battaglia's 'Archive of Blood' -- Photojournalism and Television -- Letizia Battaglia, a Photographer at War -- Photography Between Death and Resurrection -- A Semiotic Analysis of Death -- Letizia Battaglia and the Stage of Death -- Conclusion -- References -- Photographs -- Chapter 16: Economies of Mortalities: Ageism and Disposability During the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Introduction -- Beyond Narratives of Decline: Understanding Diversity in Older Age -- Necropolitics and the Pandemic -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17: Reflecting Grief During a Pandemic: Online UK Newspapers' Reportage and Researchers' Experiences -- Introduction -- Epistemological and Theoretical Underpinnings of Our Research -- Conducting the Research: Data Analysis During a Pandemic -- Overview of Findings from Our Research -- Reflecting on Doing Analysis Whilst Living Through the Same Pandemic -- Erica's Experiences -- Ryann's Experience -- Lucy's Experience -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18: Conclusion to Difficult Death, Dying, and the Dead in Media and Culture -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
• ISBN: 3-031-40732-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910766894003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II