Death, the dead and popular culture

• Main Author: Penfold-Mounce, Ruth, 1979- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Series: Emerald studies in death and culture
• Subjects: Death.; Death > Social aspects.; Death in popular culture.; Social Science, Death & Dying.; Sociology: death & dying.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787430532 (e-book); 9781787439436 (ePUB)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 142 pages).

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 sociologic...