With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs,

Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society’s engagement with mortality. Drawing upon cel

Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race

This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices. Through a cultural sociological lens, it studies death as it remains con

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 t