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Television/Death

Television/Death

Wheatley, Helen

Paperback

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Television

Television

ISBN10: 147445173X
ISBN13: 9781474451734
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 30 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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'. It argues that television is the posthumous medium par excellence and looks at how the dead return via incorporation into new television programmes or through projects to bring television out of the archive.

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