Death, The Dead and Popular Culture

Death, The Dead and Popular Culture
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Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 9781787430532
ISBN-13 : 1787430537
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Book Synopsis Death, The Dead and Popular Culture by : Ruth Penfold-Mounce

Download or read book Death, The Dead and Popular Culture written by Ruth Penfold-Mounce and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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