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The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to sati...
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oapen-20.500.12657-614142024-03-27T14:14:31Z Death is Served Castelli, Stella Death America Popular Culture Media Literature Film Cultural Studies Television thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATJ Television thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies::JBCT2 Media studies: TV and society The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media. 2023-02-24T15:50:08Z 2023-02-24T15:50:08Z 2023 book ONIX_20230224_9783839465691_2 9783839465691 9783837665697 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61414 eng American Culture Studies application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9783839465691.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag 10.14361/9783839465691 10.14361/9783839465691 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9783839465691 9783837665697 transcript Verlag 40 220 Bielefeld [...] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access |
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The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media. |
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