The Age of Spectacular Death

Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

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English

Routledge
09 September 2020

Cultural studies; Social theory; Sociology: death & dying; Social & cultural anthropology

This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo and death denial to examine how we now ‘do’ death. Unfolding the notion of ‘spectacular death’ as characteristic of our modern approach to death and dying, it considers the new mediation or mediatisation of death and dying; the commercialisation of death as a ‘marketable commodity’ used to sell products, advance artistic expression or provoke curiosity; the re-ritualisation of death and the growth of new ways of finding meaning through commemorating the dead; the revolution of palliative care; and the specialisation surrounding death, particularly in relation to scholarship. Presenting a range of case studies that shed light on this new understanding of death in contemporary culture, The Age of Spectacular Death will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, psychology and anthropology with interests in death and dying.

Edited by: Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Aalborg University Denmark)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367368265
ISBN 10: 0367368269
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 09 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: The Whole World is Watching - Death in a Spectacular Age 1. If Death is the Spectacle, Big Tech is the Lens - How Social Media Frame an Age of ‘Spectacular Death’ 2. Resisting the Grave - Value and the Productive Celebrity Dead 3. Touring Heaven and Hell - Spectacular Encounters by Celebrities in Near-Death Experiences 4. The Proliferation of Skulls in Popular Culture - A Case Study of How the Traditional Symbol of Mortality was Rendered Meaningless 5. Immersive Dark Tourism Experiences - Storytelling at Dark Tourism Attractions in the Age of ‘The Immersive Death’ 6. Killing Humanity - Anthropocentrism and Apocalypse in Contemporary Cinema 7. Now Trending: #Massacre - On the Ethical Challenges of Spreading Spectacular Terrorism On New Media 8. A Tale of Two Deaths - Spectacular Death and the Scene of Pain 9. Spectacular Grief - On Three Main Trends in the Way We Deal With Loss in Contemporary Society 10. Freedom and Unavailability - The Art of Dying in the Age of Spectacular Death Postscript: The Age of ‘Spectacular Death’ Revisited

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime, Nostalgia Now, Postmortal Society, The Contemporary Goffman and Critical and Cultural Interactionism, and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, Encountering the Everyday, The Transformation of Modernity, Utopia: Social Theory and the Future, Liquid Criminology, Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences, Towards a Criminology of Emotions, Exploring Grief: Towards and Sociology of Sorrow and Death in Contemporary Popular Culture.