Television/death / Helen Wheatley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheatley, Helen, 1974- author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in television.

Edinburgh studies in television

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'Television/Death' 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. Section one looks at the representation of death, dying and the afterlife on television, in historical and contemporary factual television (from around the world) and in US television drama. Section two focuses on dramas of grief and bereavement and discusses how the long form seriality and narrative complexity of television, from family melodramas to the ghost serial, allows for an emotionally realist representation of experiences of grief, bereavement and death-related trauma. Finally, section three proposes that television has been overlooked in critical analyses of recorded sounds' and images' propensity to 'bring back the dead'.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Television/Death

1 Everyday death: The early history of death on British television

2 Signs of care: Assisted suicide on television

Part II Dramas of Grief, Bereavement and the Television Afterlife

3 A good death? Death and the afterlife in US television fiction

4 Dramas of grief: Television and mourning

5 Haunted houses, haunted landscapes: Grief and trauma in the television ghost story

Part III Posthumous Television

6 Entering the mausoleum: Posthumous television

7 Ghost town: Posthumous television in the city

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474451741