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.
| ISBN: | 9783837665697 |
| Publication date: | 7th February 2023 |
| Author: | Stella Castelli |
| Publisher: | Transcript an imprint of transcript |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 220 pages |
| Series: | American Culture Studies |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies Popular culture 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.
Death Is Served features in the following genres: Cultural studies, Popular culture, Media studies: TV and society
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Death Is Served was written by Stella Castelli and published by Transcript an imprint of transcript
Death Is Served has 220 pages
Yes it is part of American Culture Studies series
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