Death is Served
The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media
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Beschreibung
An investigation framing American culture's hunger for death as repetitive encoding across serial media.
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.
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Stella Castelli
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Death Death America America Popular Culture Popular Culture Media Media Literature Literature Film Film Cultural Studies Cultural Studies Television
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»Castelli [hat] einen gelungenen Beitrag zum Diskurs gegenwärtiger Todesdarstellungen geleistet, der durch die Analogie zum Essen eine besondere Würze erhält.«
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