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Five books to help if you are dealing with death and bereavement
No full textDr Bethan Michael-Fox is a Staff Tutor in English Literature at The Open University and co-host of The Death Studies Podcast. She researches cultural representations of death, dying and loss. In advance of National Grief Awareness Week [2-8 December] Bethan gives her book recommendations to help people explore the inevitable journey of death and the passing of others
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Death and the Screen [Special Issue]
No full textThis wholly open access special issue of Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, guest edited with colleague Dr Renske Visser, includes interdisciplinary critical and creative submissions on myriad intersections between death and the screen. Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the Supernatural, the Uncanny and the Weird. ISSN 2397-8791
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Students On Screen Special Collection
No full textThis special issue focuses on representations of students on scree
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Michael-Fox on Caswell, 'Dying Alone: Challenging Assumptions'
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Representations of Immortality and Institutions in 21st Century Popular Culture
No full textThis chapter examines how death and institutions intersect in four 21st-century popular cultural representations of immortality. While the routes to immortality in the four texts examined are varied, the chapter shows how powerful and elite institutions are positioned as central in all of these cultural representations of immortality on screen and in literature. Considering one film documentary – Freeze Me (2006), two television series – Torchwood: Miracle Day (2011) and Upload (2020–) – and one narrative fiction novel – Death at Intervals (2008), the chapter shows how a range of popular cultural narratives produced between 2005 and 2020 effectively function as spaces through which to negotiate shifting ‘real life’ anxieties about the medical and political institutionalization of death in the early 21st century. Questions about whether institutions can be trusted and about the roles they play in deciding what life and death are, as well as who gets to live and die, come to the fore across this range of popular cultural examples, demonstrating how popular cultural texts can function as spaces through which to negotiate sociocultural concerns about mortality. The chapter shows how the institutions that feature in these four texts take on a shadowy form with often nefarious motivations and ties to economic and social privilege
The Death Studies Podcast Ep8 Lucy Willow
No full textWillow, L. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 1 April 2022. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.19493975</p
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Introduction
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Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past [ISBN 9781529236668
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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Introduction to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
No full textThis chapter introduces the book Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. We reflect on the terms ‘difficult death’, ‘dying’ and the ‘dead’ and their potential meanings and we explore some of the challenges of writing about death in mediated form. We consider the difference between media and culture in the context of death studies and draw on a range of scholarship to consider the mediation of death, dying and the dead in culture. We provide a summary of each of the chapters included within the collection, and some suggestions on how you might approach the reading of the book. We argue that the terms ‘difficult death’, ‘dying’ and ‘the dead’ are contingent ones, and, for example, that what constitutes a difficult death will be culturally and socially relative, as well as dependent on a series of individual factors including life experiences and expectations. We suggest that when death is constructed as difficult, it is often so because it occurs at the nexus of myriad forms of social inequality that function as mechanisms of systemic marginalisation in life and in death
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