Thanatology 2235A/B Final: Death & Pop Culture Final Exam Notes
30 Dec 2019
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Week 1 basics of thanatology & popular culture. Thanatology: thanatology: the study of facts/events in death, and the social & psychological mechanisms of dealing with them, ethics, morality, and culture are held as essential considerations. Involves a variety of disciplines (philosophical, psychological, sociological, anthropological, clinical, political, educational, and religious perspectives) Twitter), it spreads as common "idea: historically, art & culture formed popular culture, which was limited; but now there is more outlets available to us (ex. Like a photo on facebook: mechanisms of popular culture have become popular culture themselves (ex. James bond is a character who has a "license to kill" (00 agent: controversy of the spy/adventure genre: Escapism from political tensions of the real world (where evil is banished) Literature & death: past 5 decades = large increase of popular/academic literature surrounding death, violence in young adult literature, popular book series for teens/children with death-themes (ex.
