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"This book explores death in contemporary society - or more precisely, in the 'spectacular age' - by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of death taboo and death denial to examine how we now 'do' death. Unfolding the notion of 'spectacular death' as characteristic of our modern approach to death and dying, it considers the new mediation or mediatisation of death and dying; the commercialisation of death as a 'marketable commodity' used to sell products, advance artistic expression or provoke curiosity; the re-ritualisation of death and the growth of new ways of finding meaning through commemorating the dead; the revolution of palliative care; and the specialisation surrounding death, particularly in relation to scholarship. Presenting a range of case studies that shed light on this new understanding of death in contemporary culture, The Age of Spectacular Death will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, psychology and anthropology with interests in death and dying"--
Death in popular culture. --- Death --- Thanatology. --- Social aspects.
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Die Frage nach der neuen Sichtbarkeit des Todes und der Toten wird in diesem Band anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen aus Künsten und Medien diskutiert. Zu den elementaren Leitsätzen einer Beschreibung und Kritik der Moderne zählt die Behauptung, der Tod werde zunehmend verdrängt und ausgeschlossen. Gegen diese Behauptung lässt sich einwenden, der Tod selbst bleibe – aller Metaphysik zum Trotz – prinzipiell unvorstellbar, ungreifbar, opak. Der Tod kann also gar nicht verdrängt oder ausgeschlossen werden, ganz im Gegensatz zu den Sterbenden und Toten, die ab dem 19. Jahrhundert aus dem gesellschaftlichen Verkehr, den Praktiken und Inszenierungen eines symbolischen Tauschs, ins Niemandsland der Kliniken, Obduktionssäle, Leichenschauhäuser und exterritorialisierten Friedhöfe abgeschoben wurden. In seiner Studie über Nikolai Lesskow behauptete Walter Benjamin, es sei vielleicht der unbewusste „Hauptzweck“ der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft gewesen, „den Leuten die Möglichkeit zu verschaffen, sich dem Anblick von Sterbenden zu entziehen“. Seit einigen Jahren wird jedoch eine Revision dieser kulturkritischen Diagnosen geradezu erzwungen. Die Toten sind zurückgekehrt, nicht nur als Thema spiritueller, psychologischer oder philosophischer Diskurse, sondern in konkreter, sinnlicher, materieller Gestalt. Diese Rückkehr ereignet sich in den Künsten, in Literatur, Fotografien, Rauminstallationen und Ausstellungen; sie ereignet sich in Filmen und TV-Serien (wie „Six Feet Under“, „CSI“ oder „Crossing Jordan“), die das Publikum in allen forensischen Details über die konkrete Materialität der Toten aufklären; sichtbar wird sie auch in neu gestalteten Bestattungspraktiken oder in den öffentlichen Debatten um Sterbehilfe, Hospizbewegung, Transplantationsmedizin oder das biotechnologische Versprechen der Langlebigkeit – wenn nicht gar „Unsterblichkeit“. Ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit rückt daher die Frage, ob sich gegenwärtig ein kulturelles System von Symbolen und Ritualen zu entwickeln beginnt, das zu einer neuen Sichtbarkeit des Todes und der Toten beiträgt.
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Death in popular culture. --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Social aspects.
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"The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry; and funerals have become less traditional. "Corpse chic" and "skull style" have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book considers, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. Previous considerations of our fixation on death have not developed a convincing theory linking the mounting demand for images of violent death and the dramatic changes in death-related social rituals and practices. This book offers a conceptual framework that connects the observations of the simulated world of fiction and movies--including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal, and the Harry Potter series--to social and cultural practices, providing an analysis of the specific aesthetics and the intellectual and historical conditions that triggered the cult of death. It also considers the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, as well as by posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement, in the formation of the current antihumanist atmosphere. With its critique of movie and book blockbusters and the death-related social rituals, festivals, and fashions that have coalesced into the cult of death, this timely volume will appeal to anyone hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age. Scholars and general readers of cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies will find this book thought-provoking"--
Death. --- Death in popular culture. --- Civilization, Modern. --- Culture. --- Death in literature. --- Death in motion pictures.
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La variété des conceptions de l’au-delà révèle combien la question du trépas constitue l’un des fondements des sociétés humaines. Comment celles-ci se représentent-elles l’acte même de mourir ? À quelles nécessités sociales ou religieuses répondent l’inhumation, la crémation ou la momification des dépouilles ? Quelles que soient les formes qu’elles revêtent, les funérailles témoignent toujours de la volonté de préparer la vie du défunt dans un autre monde. C’est ce que nous confirme cet ouvrage à travers l’étude de sociétés aussi diverses que celles de la Grèce et de la Rome antiques, du Moyen Âge chrétien, de la Chine ou de l’Inde. Il montre l’extraordinaire créativité des hommes dans leur face-à-face avec la mort, qu’ils soient juifs, musulmans, bouddhistes, amérindiens ou mélanésiens. Mais au-delà des imaginaires et des rites qui distinguent toutes ces cultures, un socle invariant les réunit : dans toutes les religions, monothéistes ou polythéistes, tribales ou universelles, la mort ne s’oppose pas à la vie, mais à la naissance. La vie continue, croit-on, après la mort
Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death in popular culture --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Death in popular culture. --- Social aspects. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Religious aspects. --- Mort --- Mort dans la culture populaire --- Rites et cérémonies funéraires --- Vie future --- Aspect religieux
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This book considers the cultural meanings of death in American journalism and the role of journalism in interpretations and enactments of public grief, which has returned to an almost Victorian level. A number of researchers have begun to address this growing collective preoccupation with death in modern life; few scholars, however, have studied the central forum for the conveyance and construction of public grief today: news media. News reports about death have a powerful impact and cultural authority because they bring emotional immediacy to matters of fact, telling stories of real people who die in real circumstances and real people who mourn them. Moreover, through news media, a broader audience mourns along with the central characters in those stories, and, in turn, news media cover the extended rituals. Journalism in a Culture of Grief examines this process through a range of types of death and types of news media. It discusses the reporting of horrific events such as September 11 andHurricane Katrina; it considers the cultural role of obituaries and the instructive work of coverage of teens killed due to their own risky behaviors; and it assesses the role of news media in conducting national, patriotic memorial rituals.
Death in mass media. --- Death in popular culture --- Grief --- Journalism --- Mass media and culture --- Social aspects --- Social aspects
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Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture enables the dead to be consumed by the living on a mass global scale, actively engaging them with issues of mortality. This book develops the sociological intersectionality between death, the dead and popular culture by examining the agency of the dead. Drawing upon the posthumous careers of the celebrity dead and organ transplantation mythology in popular culture the dead are shown to not be hampered by death but to benefit from the symbolic and economic value they can generate. Meanwhile the fictional dead - the Undead and the dead in crime drama - are conceptualised through morbid sensibility and morbid space to mobilise consumer consideration of mortality and even challenge the public wisdom that contemporary Western society is in death denial and that death is taboo. Death and the dead, within the parameters of popular culture, form a palatable and normative bridge between viewers and mortality, iterating the innate value and hidden depths of popular culture in the study of contemporary society. This book will be of interest to anybody who researches death, popular culture and questions of mortality.
Death. --- Death --- Death in popular culture. --- Social aspects. --- Mort. --- Mort --- Mort dans la culture populaire. --- Aspect social.
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