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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-26 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 156
Pages: 156
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-01 - Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society’s engagement with mortality. Drawing upon cel
Language: en
Pages: 265
Pages: 265
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-06 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
Language: en
Pages: 293
Pages: 293
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-05 - Publisher: Springer
This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices. Through a cultural sociological lens, it studies death as it remains con
Language: en
Pages: 265
Pages: 265
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-06 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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