Death is Served

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The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media

By Stella Castelli

Series: American Culture Studies

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Death is Served explores the American cultural obsession with death, highlighting how it is repeatedly represented in literature and media. Stella Castelli analyses this phenomenon as a 'repetition compulsion' linked to language's failure to fully capture death's essence. Using an intermedial approach, she examines various forms and tropes associated with death, framing this fixation through metaphors of food consumption to understand its pervasive encoding in culture.
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This book is suited for readers interested in cultural studies, media analysis, American literature, and death studies, particularly those intrigued by interdisciplinary and hermeneutic approaches.

An investigation framing American culture's hunger for death as repetitive encoding across serial media.

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The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishises death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death.

Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualises its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analysing representations of death across American literature and media.

Death is Served explores these themes with depth and insight, inviting readers to rethink the ways in which death is portrayed and consumed in cultural contexts.

Series: American Culture Studies

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Simon Born, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2024): "Castelli has made a successful contribution to the discourse on contemporary representations of death, which gains a special flavour through the analogy to eating."

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ISBN: 9783837665697

Publisher: Transcript Verlag

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 February 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Transcript Verlag

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 23.0mm

Weight: 312g

Pages: 220

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: American Culture Studies Stella Castelli

About the Author

Stella Castelli, born in 1989, works as a teaching associate at the English Department of Universität Zürich. In 2023, she finalized her doctoral dissertation discussing the serial representation of death in American culture. Her research focuses on American studies, literature, film and television studies, psycho-analytic criticism as well as philosophy.

Death is Served