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Death is Served: The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media
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Abstract The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. The author shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfact... view more
The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. The author 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.... view less
Keywords
death; literature; media; film; United States of America; television; popular culture
Classification
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
218 p.
Series
American Culture Studies, 40
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839465691
ISSN
2747-4380
ISBN
978-3-8394-6569-1
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed