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The Gothic and death
The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study
devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the
centuries. It investigates how the multifarious strands of the
Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and
memorialisation ('the Death Question') - have intersected and been
configured cross-culturally to diverse ends from the mid-eighteenth
century to the present day. Drawing on recent scholarship in such
fields as Gothic Studies, film theory, Women's and Gender Studies
and Thanatology Studies, this interdisciplinary collection of
fifteen essays by international scholars combines an attention to
socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close
reading of works, both classic and lesser known. This area of
enquiry is considered by way of such popular and uncanny figures as
corpses, ghosts, zombies and vampires, and across various cultural
and literary forms such as Graveyard Poetry, Romantic poetry,
Victorian literature, nineteenth-century Italian and Russian
literature, Anglo-American film and television, contemporary Young
Adult fiction and Bollywood film noir.
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Snuff : real death and screen media
\"Brings together scholars from film and media studies for the definitive academic study of 'real death' on screen - from horror cinema, to pornography, to online 'shock videos'\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Washed in Blood
Will Smith inI Am Legend. Leonardo DiCaprio inTitanic. Charlton Heston in just about everything.
Viewers of Hollywood action films are no doubt familiar with the sacrificial victim-hero, the male protagonist who nobly gives up his life so that others may be saved.Washed in Bloodargues that such sacrificial films are especially prominent in eras when the nation-and American manhood-is thought to be in crisis. The sacrificial victim-hero, continually imperiled and frequently exhibiting classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, thus bears the trauma of the nation.
Claire Sisco King offers an in-depth study of three prominent cycles of Hollywood films that follow the sacrificial narrative: the early-to-mid 1970s, the mid-to-late 1990s, and the mid-to-late 2000s. From Vietnam-era disaster movies to post-9/11 apocalyptic thrillers, she examines how each film represents traumatized American masculinity and national identity. What she uncovers is a cinematic tendency to position straight white men as America's most valuable citizens-and its noblest victims.
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The celebration of death in contemporary culture
\"The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry; and funerals have become less traditional. \"Corpse chic\" and \"skull style\" have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book considers, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. Previous considerations of our fixation on death have not developed a convincing theory linking the mounting demand for images of violent death and the dramatic changes in death-related social rituals and practices. This book offers a conceptual framework that connects the observations of the simulated world of fiction and movies--including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal, and the Harry Potter series--to social and cultural practices, providing an analysis of the specific aesthetics and the intellectual and historical conditions that triggered the cult of death. It also considers the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, as well as by posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement, in the formation of the current antihumanist atmosphere. With its critique of movie and book blockbusters and the death-related social rituals, festivals, and fashions that have coalesced into the cult of death, this timely volume will appeal to anyone hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age. Scholars and general readers of cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies will find this book thought-provoking\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rhetoric of modern death in american living dead films
Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. The book frames the tradition of living dead films, discusses the cinematic processes of addressing the viewers, and analyses the films' socio-cultural negotiation with death.
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Death in Documentaries
In Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter suggests that documentaries are an especially apt form of contemporary memento mori; that is, documentaries offer transformative experiences for a viewer to renew one's consciousness of mortality.
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