Spectacular Death
| Author | : Tristanne Connolly |
| Publisher | : Intellect Books |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781841503226 |
| ISBN 13 | : 1841503223 |
| Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Language: en
Pages: 302
Pages: 302
A collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. T
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasis
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
In terms of visual impact, television has often been regarded as inferior to cinema. It has been characterised as sound-led and consumed by a distracted audienc
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-Stat
Language: en
Pages: 214
Pages: 214
Despite the range of studies into grief and mourning in relation to the digital, research to date largely focuses on the cultural practices and meanings that ar
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre of films focu
Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
This study offers an incisive new reading of the romantic playwright Thomas Lovell (1803-1849) Beddoes's work as shaped by the contemporary discourses of radica
Language: en
Pages: 454
Pages: 454
This book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman’s sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of hum
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
In a gripping debut novel that combines power, politics, and the press, John Luciew introduces a rogue reporter whose new lease on life may be the end of him...
Language: en
Pages: 342
Pages: 342
In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender, and the fashioning of Roman imperial identity, in the wor
