Death in American Texts and Performances : Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead [1 ed.] 9780754696025, 9780754669074

Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Remake 9781474440660

Explores American horror remakes produced since 2000 within key cultural, industry and reception contexts Analyses remak

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Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity 9780822380382

Through a series of literary and cultural readings, argues that African-Americans have a special relation to death arisi

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Death, the Dead and Popular Culture 1787430545, 9781787430549

Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining th

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Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic 9781526125637

The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of ou

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Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death 9780520926714

Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but on

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Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West 9780801470776

Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded

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The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness 9780520969964

On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzee research camp in the Go

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Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture 3031407326, 9783031407321

This book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The

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Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture 3031407326, 9783031407321

This book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The

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Mongol - Corpses of the divine

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