Death, The Dead and Popular Culture

ISBN: 9781787430549 出版年：2018 页码：160 Ruth Penfold-Mounce Emerald Publishing Limited

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.