{"product_id":"televisiondeath-helen-wheatley-9781474451727","title":"Television\/Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelevision\/Death\u003c\/i\u003e intertwines the study of death, dying and bereavement on television with discussion of the ways that television (and the TV archive) provides access to the dead. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection One explores the representation of death and dying on television, in historical and contemporary television documentaries. It looks at the early history of this genre as well as contemporary documentaries about a range of death and dying experiences, from home deaths to hospice care and assisted dying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSection Two focuses on dramas of grief and bereavement and discusses how contemporary complex serial television drama and comedy, from family melodramas to the ghost serial to afterlife dramadies, present emotionally realist representations of experiences of grief, bereavement and death-related trauma and explore questions like 'What happens to us after we die?' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinally, Section Three proposes that television has been overlooked in critical analyses of how recorded media 'brings back the dead'. It argues that television is the ultimate posthumous medium and looks at how the dead return via incorporation into new television programmes or through projects to bring television out of the archive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Wheatley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474451721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474451727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Helen Wheatley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45897592176895,"sku":"9781474451727","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9f99f82-772d-4ffb-952f-1f316e078388.jpg?v=1721374285","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/televisiondeath-helen-wheatley-9781474451727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}