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Death is Served

The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media

Stella Castelli (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2023
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978-3-8376-6569-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Stella Castelli, born in 1989, works as a teaching associate at the English Department of Universität Zürich. In 2023, she finalized her doctoral dissertation discussing the serial representation of death in American culture. Her research focuses on American studies, literature, film and television studies, psycho-analytic criticism as well as philosophy.

»Castelli [hat] einen gelungenen Beitrag zum Diskurs gegenwärtiger Todesdarstellungen geleistet, der durch die Analogie zum Essen eine besondere Würze erhält.« Simon Born, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2024)

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	American Culture Studies ; 40
Zusatzinfo	36 Farbabbildungen
Verlagsort	Bielefeld
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 225 mm
Gewicht	468 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte	America • Cultural Studies • Death • Film • Literature • media • popular culture • Television
ISBN-10	3-8376-6569-0 / 3837665690
ISBN-13	978-3-8376-6569-7 / 9783837665697
Zustand	Neuware