• Complain

Ruth Penfold-Mounce - Death, the Dead and Popular Culture

Here you can read online Ruth Penfold-Mounce - Death, the Dead and Popular Culture full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: Bingley, year: 2018, publisher: Emerald Publishing, genre: Science / Art. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Ruth Penfold-Mounce Death, the Dead and Popular Culture
  • Book:
    Death, the Dead and Popular Culture
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Emerald Publishing
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2018
  • City:
    Bingley
  • Rating:
    4 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 80
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

Death, the Dead and Popular Culture: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Death, the Dead and Popular Culture" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

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.

Ruth Penfold-Mounce: author's other books


Who wrote Death, the Dead and Popular Culture? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Death, the Dead and Popular Culture — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Death, the Dead and Popular Culture" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
DEATH, THE DEAD AND POPULAR CULTURE
EMERALD STUDIES IN DEATH AND CULTURE
Series Editors:
Ruth Penfold-Mounce, University of York, UK
Julie Rugg, University of York, UK
Jack Denham, York St John University, UK
Editorial Advisory Board: Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National University, USA; Lisa McCormick, University of Edinburgh, UK; Ben Poore, University of York, UK; Melissa Schrift, East Tennessee State University, USA; Kate Woodthorpe, University of Bath, UK
Emerald Studies in Death and Culture provides an outlet for cross-disciplinary exploration of aspects of mortality. The series creates a new forum for the publication of interdisciplinary research that approaches death from a cultural perspective. Published texts will be at the forefront of new ideas, new subjects, new theoretical applications, and new explorations of less conventional cultural engagements with death and the dead.
Published Titles
Brian Parsons, The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century: From Undertaker to Funeral Director
Forthcoming Titles
Tim Bullamore, The Art of Obituary Writing
Matthew Spokes, Jack Denham, and Benedikt Lehmann, Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces
Racheal Harris, Meaning and Symbolism in Pet Inspired Memorial Tattoos: Echoes and Imitations of Life
DEATH, THE DEAD AND POPULAR CULTURE
BY
RUTH PENFOLD-MOUNCE
University of York, UK
United Kingdom North America Japan India Malaysia China Emerald Publishing - photo 1
United Kingdom North America Japan India
Malaysia China
Emerald Publishing Limited
Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK
First edition 2018
Copyright Ruth Penfold-Mounce, 2018
Reprints and permissions service
Contact:
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency and in the USA by The Copyright Clearance Center. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the text, illustrations or advertisements. The opinions expressed in these chapters are not necessarily those of the Author or the publisher.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-1-78743-054-9 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-78743-053-2 (E-ISBN)
ISBN: 978-1-78743-943-6 (Epub)
CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES PREFACE My fascination with death and the dead goes - photo 2
CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
PREFACE
My fascination with death and the dead goes back to my doctoral studies (20012005) when I came across tales of doctors keeping body parts taken from famous dead criminals whom they had autopsied. Combining this macabre souvenir trade in the dead with popular culture was a remarkably easy step considering my wider interest in celebrity and popular culture. I have come to embrace the quote by JM Barries well-loved character Peter Pan (Peter Pan, 1911) who said that to die would be an awfully big adventure. Pan got it almost right but failed to mention that to research death is a big adventure, too, and this book is proof of that.
Death, The Dead and Popular Culture is part of the first wave of publications under the Emerald Series in Death and Culture which was inspired by the first biennial Death and Culture Conference held at the University of York, UK, in 2016. The book series is driven by the intention of providing an outlet for cross-disciplinary exploration of aspects of mortality. It seeks to provide a forum for research that approaches death from a cultural perspective and is fully supportive of new ideas and subjects, new theoretical applications, and new explorations of less conventional engagements with death and the dead. The Emerald Series in Death and Culture is run by myself, Dr Julie Rugg (University of York, UK), and Dr Jack Denham (York St John University, UK), and we put out a call for book proposals in January 2017. So far, in these early stages, we have been successful to recruit passionate researchers working in fascinating fields of death research and we look forward to publishing many books in the future.
My contribution to death studies research extends beyond the book series and conference and has branched out to include the establishment of the Death and Culture Network (DaCNet) at the University of York, UK. This interdisciplinary network brings together scholars with an interest in death, provides support and training for doctoral researchers rooted in death studies, and actively pursues public engagement. The hope for DaCNet in the future is to provide leadership and a sense of unity to the international community of death scholars who examine the vibrant and diverse relationship between death and culture in all its varied forms.
Much gratitude goes to Philippa Grand and Emerald Publishing for not just being willing to publish this book but to support the Emerald Series on Death and Culture.
I presented versions of chapter two at the Centre for Death and Society Conference (CDAS) in 2016 and as a Keynote Speaker at Death and the Maiden Conference in Lodz, Poland, in 2017. Both of these conferences were crucial in refining my ideas, so thank you CDAS and Kasia Malecka for persuading me to renew my passport and visit her fabulous homeland.
Thanks are also due to Dave Beer for his support, endless encouragement and much-needed lunch breaks. This book has benefitted hugely from his insight and prevented chapter three from being scrapped in its entirety in a fit of pique and self-doubt as well as rescuing chapter four with an improved framework.
My love and thanks as ever go to Daniel for good-humouredly putting up with my macabre enthusiasm for death and corpses (Theres a mummified arm in Wiltshire!) and to Abi and Sam who know far more about death and the dead than the average children under eight.
Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce
University of York
INTRODUCTION: THE AGENCY OF THE DEAD
The dead are inanimate body remains and for all intents and purposes, they lack power, control, or a voice. They are a life that has ended. They have shifted from one state of being to another. But death is not that simple. The dead can, and do, have agency; in this context agency refers to a mode of action whereby the dead are considered able to influence and alter the world despite death. In 1988, Bob Dylan wrote Death Is Not the End and he was right. This book is not about dying or grieving, and it is not about the practicalities of death and the death industry or even rituals of death-although these are vital lines of research. Instead, this book is about how death is not the end but a beginning, albeit a posthumous one. It considers how death and the dead possess value and the ability to entertain making them into a central, commonplace phenomenon consumed by a plethora of international individuals from around the globe. Remarkably, few sociologists and even fewer death studies scholars have devoted their research energy toward an in-depth examination of the relationship among death, the dead and popular culture. This is despite popular . This book intends to rectify the gap in considering representations of death and the dead within popular culture (and not just television) and in arguing that, in a global consumer culture, corpses are gaining unprecedented agency.
Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Death, the Dead and Popular Culture»

Look at similar books to Death, the Dead and Popular Culture. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Death, the Dead and Popular Culture»

Discussion, reviews of the book Death, the Dead and Popular Culture and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.