Death, The Dead and Popular Culture

Death, The Dead and Popular Culture
Author: Ruth Penfold-Mounce
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2018-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1787430545

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Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society’s engagement with mortality. Drawing upon celebrity posthumous careers, organ transplantation mythology and the fictional dead, this book considers how representations of the dead in popular culture exert powerful agency.


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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-01 - Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

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