Death in the 21st Century

Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. In her research, she has explored representations of ageing and old age, as well as the notions of memory and nostalgia within literary gerontology. She is the editor of Autumnal Faces (2017) and «Experienc’d Age knows what for Youth is fit»? (2019) and author of «And Yet I Remember» (2019). Simon Bacon has written and edited over 30 books, including The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen Vols 1 & 2 (2023) and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (2024). He is the Series Editor for Genre Fiction and Film Companions and Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead with Peter Lang.

Contents: Gemma Files: Image Intervention I: The Dying of the Light – W. Scott Poole: Foreword: The Faces of Death (John Alan Schwartz, 1978) – Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon: Introduction – The War on Terror: Evil and the Inevitability of Death – Laura R. Kremmel: Image Intervention II: Skull 17 – Jack McCormack-Clark: 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002) – Death as Insatiable Terror – Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr: The Final Destination Films (Various, 2000–11) – Death as Violent Inevitability – Dave Jeffery: Death (Eric Kripke, 2005–20) – The Changing Face of Death – Anna Lüscher: The Harry Potter Series (Various, 2001–11) – Death Positivity – Phil Fitzsimmons: The Sleepless (Nuzo Onoh, 2016) – Living Alongside Death – Technology: Medicalisation, Ambivalence and Violence – Gemma Files: Image Intervention III: Unlocking the Truth – Rebecca Booth: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016) – Death as the Dissected Female Cadaver – Łucja Lange: Proof (Rob Bragin, 2015–15) – Science as Death – Stephanie Weber: The Midnight Library (Matt Haig, 2020) – Death and Infinite Lives – Katarzyna Ancuta: Death Note (Various, 2003–17) – Death as Information – Carl Wilson: Death Stranding (Kojima Productions, 2019) – Death as Interconnectivity – Tom Ue: Ready Player Two (Ernest Cline, 2020) – Pixelated Death – Climate Change: Environments and the Environmental – Gemma Files: Image Intervention IV: The King of Nature – Tracy Fahey and Jennifer Moran Stritch: Death Café (Limerick, 2015–Present) – Death in Life – Mark Fryers: Ghosts (Nick Broomfield, 2006) – The Sea as Death – Kristy Strange: Geostorm (Dean Devlin, 2017) – Death as the Eye of the Storm – Ildikó Limpár: Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2020) – Death as Mycological Rebirth – Extremism: Partisanship and Identity Politics – Laura R. Kremmel: Image Intervention V: Skull 4 – James T. McCrea: The Unite the Right Rally and Its Aftermath (2017–20) – The Skull – Nicola Young: The Purge Series (Various, 2012–21) – Mass Shootings and Endless Death – Rachael Grant: American Horror Story: Asylum (Brad Falchuck and Ryan Murphy, 2012–13) – Angel of Death – Robert Mclaughlin: Mistress Death in the Marvel Universe (Various, 1973–Present) – For the Love of Death – Maria Giakaniki: Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018) – Female Death – Octavia Cade: Deathface Ginny (Kelly Sue DeConnick, 2014–20) – Death and #MeToo – Bethan Michael-Fox and Renske Visser: Mrs Death Misses Death (Salena Godden, 2021) – Death as a Black Woman – Global Pandemics: Contagion, Mental Health and Dementia – Gemma Files: Image Intervention VI: The Source – Cath Davies: Coco (Lee Unkrich, 2017) – Death as Decomposition – Simon Bacon: The Thing (Matthijs van Heijningen Jr, 2011) – The Microbe as Death – Debaditya Mukhopadhyay: Ludo (Anurag Basu, 2020) – Death as New Normal – Heidi Kosonen: 13 Reasons Why (Brian Yorkey, 2017–20) – Death as Controversial Suicide – Rae Hargrave: Land of the Lustrous (Takahiko Kyōgoku, 2017–17) – Death as Loss of Memory – Catherine Pugh: Unus Annus (Mark Fischbach and Ethan Nestor, 2019–20) – Death as Deletion – Lisa Morton: Afterword: The Tomorrow of Death – Dia de los Muertos – Gemma Files: Image Intervention VII: The Guardian.