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9780820470641

When Death Goes Pop: Death, Media And The Remaking Of Community

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  • ISBN13:

    9780820470641

  • ISBN10:

    0820470643

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-12-01
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

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Author Biography

Charlton Mellwain is Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University.

Table of Contents

Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Permission to Speak the Discourse of Death 1(226)
1 Amusing Ourselves about Death: Violent Media and Death Education
27(22)
2 Death, Home from Its Holiday?
49(22)
3 Death Becomes Them: Reading Six Feet Under
71(18)
4 Rhetorical Invention: Structure and Argument in Six Feet Under
89(20)
5 Affiliation, Critique, and Community: Viewers Respond to Six Feet Under
109(22)
6 Myths of Death in Science Fiction: The Case of The Twilight Zone
131(14)
7 Believing in What's "Out There": The Myth of The X-Files
145(30)
8 Two Mediums, One Message: Crossing Over and the Mass Consumption of "Contact"
175(22)
9 Digital Media Meets Death Culture: The Impact of Time, Space, and Vision
197(30)
10 Web Funerals, Virtual Funerals and the Business of Death 227(20)
Selected References 247(4)
Index 251

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