Overview
- Media studies perspective on death awareness by examining cultural relevance of accounts of death, dying and grief
- Reflects a scholarly appreciation of our creative desire and capacity to reflect on the role of death in life
- Acknowledges the increasingly expansive practices of memorialisation and remembrance
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Art of Dying: 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying examines how contemporary media platforms are used to produce creative accounts, responses and reflections on the course of dying, death and grief. Outside the public performance of grief at funerals, grief can strike in anticipation of a loss, or it can endure, continuing to interject itself and interrupt a permanently changed life. This book examines the particular affordances possessed by various contemporary creative forms and platforms that capture and illuminate different aspects of the phenomenology of dying and grief. It explores the subversive and unguarded nature of stand-up comedy, the temporal and spatial inventiveness of graphic novels, the creative constructions of documentary filmmaking, the narrative voice of young adult literature, the realism of documentary theatre, alongside more ubiquitous media such as social media, television and games. This book is testament to the power of creative expression to elicit vicarious grief and sharpen our awareness of death.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gareth Schott is Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is a media psychologist with broad interests in both the psychological impact of media but also the role of creative media in exploring human psychology and producing psychological knowledge.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Art of Dying
Book Subtitle: 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying
Editors: Gareth Richard Schott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35217-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35216-4Published: 04 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35219-5Due: 04 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35217-1Published: 03 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 199
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Audio-Visual Culture, Popular Culture , Digital/New Media, Media and Communication, Comedy Studies, Screen Studies