Ruth Penfold-Mounce

Broschiertes Buch

Death, The Dead and Popular Culture

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Ruth Penfold-Mounce is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of York, UK. Her research interests focus on death, celebrity and popular culture and crime. She a founder of the Death and Culture Network (DaCNet) and author of Celebrity Culture and Crime. Ruth actively pursues public engagement with her research by writing for award-winning blogs and scholarly news sites as well as appearing on television and radio.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9781787430549
• ISBN-10: 1787430545
• Artikelnr.: 52424079