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Author(s): Michael Hviid Jacobsen (editor)
ISBN(s): 9780429351556, 0429351550
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.09 MB
Year: 2020
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0429351550 

ISBN 13: 9780429351556

Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen

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 the 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.  

Table of contents: 

1 If death is the spectacle, big tech is the lens: How social media frame an age of ‘spectacular death’
2 Resisting the grave: Value and the productive celebrity dead
3 Touring heaven and hell: Spectacular encounters by celebrities in near-death experiences
4 The proliferation of skulls in popular culture: A case study of how the traditional symbol of mortality was rendered meaningless
5 Immersive dark tourism experiences: Storytelling at dark tourism attractions in the age of ‘the immersive death’
6 Killing humanity: Anthropocentrism and apocalypse in contemporary cinema
7 Now trending: #Massacre: On the ethical challenges of spreading spectacular terrorism on new media
8 A tale of two deaths: Spectacular death and the scene of pain
9 Spectacular grief: On three main trends in the way we deal with loss in contemporary society
10 Freedom and unavailability: The art of dying in the age of spectacular death

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