The Celebration Of Death In Contemporary Culture
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The Celebration Of Death In Contemporary Culture
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Author : Dina Khapaeva
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-03-06
The Celebration Of Death In Contemporary Culture written by Dina Khapaeva and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
Celebrations Of Death
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Author : Peter Metcalf
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1991-10-25
Celebrations Of Death written by Peter Metcalf and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10-25 with Social Science categories.
Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to the second edition -- 1. Preliminaries -- Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king -- 7. The immortal kingship -- Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways -- Bibliography -- Index.
Days Of Death Days Of Life
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Author : Kristin Norget
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2006
Days Of Death Days Of Life written by Kristin Norget and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with All Souls' Day categories.
Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in the popular culture of poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Norget's work offers an original perspective on the significance of the Day of the Dead and other Oaxacan ritual practices in shaping people's values and social identities. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxacan neighborhoods, Norget includes vivid descriptions of Day of the Dead rituals.
Halloween And Other Festivals Of Death And Life
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Author : Jack Santino
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 1994
Halloween And Other Festivals Of Death And Life written by Jack Santino and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Reference categories.
However, the essays in this volume also suggest that there is something ironic and unsettling about the immense popularity of a holiday whose main images are of death, evil, and the grotesque. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life is a unique contribution that questions our concepts of religiosity and spirituality while contributing to our understanding of Halloween as a rich and diverse reflection of our society's past, present, and future identity.
Death In Contemporary Popular Culture
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Author : Adriana Teodorescu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-26
Death In Contemporary Popular Culture written by Adriana Teodorescu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Social Science categories.
With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo. What makes thanatic themes so desirable in popular culture? Do representations of the macabre and gore perpetuate or sublimate violent desires? Has contemporary popular culture removed our unease with death? Can social media help us cope with our mortality, or can music and art present death as an aesthetic phenomenon? This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesthetic, and theoretical aspects of the ways in which popular culture understands, represents, and manages death, bringing together contributions from around the world focused on television, cinema, popular literature, social media and the internet, art, music, and advertising.
Death And Dying
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Author : Richard A. Kalish
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1980
Death And Dying written by Richard A. Kalish and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Family & Relationships categories.
Death is a constant in every society, but each of the world's cultures views the end of life differently. This book examines beliefs about dying, burial, and life after death held by peoples of wide ranging societies.
The Wedding Of The Dead
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Author : Gail Kligman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
The Wedding Of The Dead written by Gail Kligman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Social Science categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
Funeral Festivals In America
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Author : Jacqueline S. Thursby
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-11-21
Funeral Festivals In America written by Jacqueline S. Thursby and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-21 with Social Science categories.
When Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how technical and extraordinarily creative human funerary practices would become in the ensuing decades. In Funeral Festivals in America, author Jacqueline S. Thursby explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals have evolved into affairs that help the living with the healing process. Thursby suggests that there is irony in the festivities surrounding death. The typical American response to death often develops into a celebration that reestablishes links or strengthens ties between family members and friends. The increasingly important funerary banquet, for example, honors an often well-lived life in order to help survivors accept the change that death brings and to provide healing fellowship. At such celebrations and other forms of the traditional wake, participants often use humor to add another dimension to expressing both the personality of the deceased and their ties to a particular ethnic heritage. In her research and interviews, Thursby discovered the paramount importance of food as part of the funeral ritual. During times of loss, individuals want to be consoled, and this is often accomplished through the preparation and consumption of nourishing, comforting foods. In the Intermountain West, Funeral Potatoes, a potato-cheese casserole, has become an expectation at funeral meals; Muslim families often bring honey flavored fruits and vegetables to the funeral table for their consoling familiarity; and many Mexican Americans continue the tradition of tamale making as a way to bring people together to talk, to share memories, and to simply enjoy being together. Funeral Festivals in America examines rituals for loved ones separated by death, frivolities surrounding death, funeral foods and feasts, post-funeral rites, and personalized memorials and grave markers. Thursby concludes that though Americans come from many different cultural traditions, they deal with death in a largely similar approach. They emphasize unity and embrace rites that soothe the distress of death as a way to heal and move forward.
Death The Dead And Popular Culture
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Author : Ruth Penfold-Mounce
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-01
Death The Dead And Popular Culture written by Ruth Penfold-Mounce and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
Death In The Modern World
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Author : Tony Walter
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Death In The Modern World written by Tony Walter and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Social Science categories.
Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people’s experiences of dying and grief.