1st Edition
Death as Entertainment Young People and Death Awareness
Introduction— ‘I know death. He’s got many faces:’ The presence of death in young peoples’ media
Gareth Schott
1. Under pressure: representations of student suicide in British documentary television
Kay Calver and Bethan Michael-Fox
2. ‘Closed world, wounds open. Open world, wounds closed’: metacultural commentaries on digital media and youth suicide in Jan Komasa’s Suicide Room
M. F. Alvarez
3. Suicide-memes as exemplars of the everyday inauthentic relationship with death
Nicholas Smith and Shannah Linker
4. From heterosexualisation to memorialisation: queer history and moral maturation in Young Adult literature about the AIDS crisis
Gabriel Duckels
5. ‘Death from all sides’: spectacle, morality, and trauma in Suzanne Collins’ the Hunger Games trilogy
Kirstine Moffat and Melody May
6. Death and the Plague in The Story of Wanderings
Alesha Serada
7. ‘I can’t breathe’: the biopolitics and necropolitics of breath during 2020
Stefka Hristova and Amy L. Howard
Biography
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.
