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.
Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society's engagement with mortality. Drawing ...
How can we understand the relationship between death and heritage? Using three case studies, Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces adapts contemporary spatial theory to develop a new conceptual toolbox, complementing existing work on dark tourism and difficult heritage, to explore the multifarious ways that memorialization functions.
How can we understand the relationship between death and heritage? Using three case studies, Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces adapts contempo...
