Sharon Coleclough is Senior Lecturer in Film and Game Audio at Staffordshire University, UK. Her work focusses on representation and meaning through technical craft and narrative across media. Bethan Michael-Fox works for the Open University, UK teaching a range of interdisciplinary humanities and English literature modules. Bethan is co-host of The Death Studies Podcast. Renske Visser is medical anthropologist and death studies scholar living in Helsinki, Finland. Renske is co-host of The Death Studies Podcast.
Innehållsförteckning
1: Introduction to Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture.- 2: “To Show the Problem Inside and Out”: Representations of Mental Illness and Suicide in Eric Steel’s The Bridge.- 3: Twenty-First Century Digital Snuff: The Circulation of Images and Videos of Real Death Online.- 4: Streaming death: terrorist violence and the digital afterlife of difficult death.- 5: ‘Death. Carnage. Chaos’: mortality and mountaineering on-screen, and on the roof of the world.- 6: Bodies on the Battlefield: Death and Combat in Band of Brothers.- 7: Melissa Merchant and Simon Order - Representing Fatal Violence in AMC’s The Walking Dead: The Role of Legitimation, Graphicness and Explicitness.- 8: Are Normative Death Narratives Celebrated, Reinforced, or Disrupted in Popular Media? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Coco and Soul.- 9: Hashtag feminism: challenging rape and femicide in South Africa.- 10: A Weaponized Landscape: Hart Island’s Geography of Denial.- 11: Shakespeare: Difficult Dead Celebrity Child .- 12: There is nothing like a dead man to demand existence’ (Antonin Artaud).- 13: Difficult Deaths and Awkward Agendas: How Mainstream News Media Negotiate Coverage of Politically Dissonant Victims.- 14: Dissected, torn, and exposed: the death and remains of the Jack the Ripper victims in the Illustrated Police News.- 15: Photographing Death to Save Photojournalism Mafia Homicides in Letizia Battaglia's “Archive of Blood”.- 16: Economies of Mortalities: Ageism and Disposability During the Covid-19 Pandemic.- 17: Reflecting grief during a pandemic: online UK newspapers’ reportage and researchers’ experiences.- 18: Conclusion to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture.