Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire

Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire
Author: David Stone Potter
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780472085682

"Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire gives those who have a general interest in Roman antiquity a starting point informed by the latest developments in scholarship for understanding the extraordinary range of Roman society. Family structure, gender identity, food supply, religion, and entertainment are all crucial to an understanding of the Roman world. As views of Roman history have broadened in recent decades to encompass a wider range of topics, the need has grown for a single volume that can offer a starting point for all these diverse subjects, for readers of all backgrounds."--Page 4 of cover.

Death as Entertainment

Death as Entertainment
Author: Gareth R. Schott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000888584

This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media depictions of death and dying. Emotionally charged depictions of death play an important role in contemporary media directed toward teen and young adult audiences. Across creative works as diverse as interactive digital games, graphic novels, short form serial narratives, television and films, young people gain opportunities to engage with representations of death. In some cases, representations of death, dying, and the decision to end one’s own life have been subject to public outcry and criticism related to its perceived potential impact on impressionable audiences. Death in/as entertainment can also be fleeting, commonplace and used for humour making it trivial. The chapters in this volume particularly consider the types of engagement made possible through different contemporary creative mediums and the ways in which they might distinctively capture or arouse thoughts and feelings on the end and loss of a human life. Death as Entertainment will appeal to researchers and students interested in new media and its cultural and psychological impact. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mortality.

Death by Entertainment

Death by Entertainment
Author: Holly McClure
Publisher: Lion's Head Pub
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2001-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781891668098

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Amusing Ourselves to Death
Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1986
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.

Suicide in the Entertainment Industry

Suicide in the Entertainment Industry
Author: David K. Frasier
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2015-09-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476608075

This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry's trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media. These cases are taken from the ranks of vaudeville, film, theatre, dance, music, literature (writers with direct connections to film), and other allied fields in the entertainment industry from 1905 through 2000. Accidentally self-inflicted deaths are omitted, except for a few controversial cases. It includes the suicides of well-known personalities such as actress Peg Entwistle, who is the only person to ever commit suicide by jumping from the top of the Hollywood Sign, Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, who are believed to have overdosed on drugs, and Richard Farnsworth and Brian Keith, who shot themselves to end the misery of terminal cancer. Also mentioned, but in less detail, are the suicides of unknown and lesser-known members of the entertainment industry. Arranged alphabetically, each entry covers the person's personal and professional background, method of suicide, and, in some instances, includes actual statements taken from the suicide note.

Book of Death

Book of Death
Author: Robert Venditti
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2016-01-20
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1939346975

The Valiant heroes. X-O Manowar. Bloodshot. Ninjak. The Harbinger Renegades. Unity. This is how they lived. This is how they died. Now we know. The Book of the Geomancer has recorded it all. But only a young girl Ð the last in a line of the enigmatic mystics who protect the Earth known as Geomancers Ð has seen this future come to pass, from the coming cataclysm to the dawn of the 41st century. Alone with her sworn protector, the Eternal Warrior Ð a soldier battle-forged across five thousand years of combat Ð the duo must defy their allies to stop the Dark Age that now threatens to eclipse our world. Together, they are the number one target of every hero and villain on Earth. Either the Eternal Warrior hands her overÉor they take him down. But can even he single-handedly protect one child when the entire Valiant Universe wages war against him? New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (X-O MANOWAR) joins superstar-in-the-making Robert Gill (Batgirl) and visionary artist Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS) to begin a thousand-year journey into the future of the Valiant UniverseÉand rain, fire, blood and war on the heroes of today. Collecting BOOK OF DEATH #1Ð4.

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Amusing Ourselves to Death
Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2005-12-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780143036531

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture
Author: Dina Khapaeva
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472130269

Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race

Living Your Dying

Living Your Dying
Author: Stanley Keleman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1975
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780394487878

"This book is about dying, not about death. We are always dying a big, always giving things up, always having things taken away. Is there a person alive who isn't really curious about what dying is for them? Is there a person alive who wouldn't like to go to their dying full of excitement, without fear and without morbidity? This books tells you how." -- Front cover.

Women and Death in Film, Television, and News

Women and Death in Film, Television, and News
Author: Joanne Clarke Dillman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2014-11-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137452285

Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts.