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The Art of Dying: 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying examines how contemporary media platforms are used to produce creative accounts, responses and reflections on the course of dying, death and grief. Outside the public performance of grief at funerals, grief can strike in anticipation of a loss, or it can endure, continuing to interject itself and interrupt a permanently changed life. This book examines the particular affordances poss...

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Interrogates the nature and meaning of the 'violence' encountered and experienced by game players"--

In 1954, Fredric Wertham's description of Batman and Robin as a 'wish dream of two homosexuals living together'(Lendrum, 2004, p.70)represents one of the first known published queer readings of superhero characters. His reading saw the commencement of an intense interest in the way superheroes often portray 'camp' sensibilities representative of a queer performative identity. This is evident today within online comic book fan-communities where...