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Author:   Gareth R. Schott (University of Waikato, NZ)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032462561

ISBN 10:   1032462566
Pages:   124
Publication Date:   06 June 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction— ‘I know death. He’s got many faces:’ The presence of death in young peoples’ media 1. Under pressure: representations of student suicide in British documentary television 2. ‘Closed world, wounds open. Open world, wounds closed’: metacultural commentaries on digital media and youth suicide in Jan Komasa’s Suicide Room 3. Suicide-memes as exemplars of the everyday inauthentic relationship with death 4. From heterosexualisation to memorialisation: queer history and moral maturation in Young Adult literature about the AIDS crisis 5. ‘Death from all sides’: spectacle, morality, and trauma in Suzanne Collins’ the Hunger Games trilogy 6. Death and the Plague in The Story of Wanderings 7. ‘I can’t breathe’: the biopolitics and necropolitics of breath during 2020

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Gareth R. Schott is Professor in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa, New Zealand. As a media psychologist, he holds an interest in both the psychological impact of media but also the role of creative media in exploring human psychology and psychological knowledge.

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