Index

Ruth Penfold-Mounce (University of York, UK)

Death, The Dead and Popular Culture

ISBN: 978-1-78743-054-9, eISBN: 978-1-78743-053-2

Publication date: 1 June 2018

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Penfold-Mounce, R. (2018), "Index", Death, The Dead and Popular Culture (Emerald Studies in Death and Culture), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 134-142. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-053-220181008

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Copyright © Ruth Penfold-Mounce, 2018


INDEX

Index

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
, 70

Accessible death
, 113

Ali, Muhammed
, 13

Alzheimer’s disease, zombie metaphors (relationship)
, 83

Amazing Transplant, The
, 52

American Way of Death, The (Mitford)
, 87

America’s Next Top Model
, 101–102

Astaire, Fred
, 31–32

Astaire-McKenzie, Ava
, 32

Astaire, Robyn
, 31–32

Attenborough, David
, 13–14

Authentic Brands Group (ABG)
, 32–33

gazes
, 94–100

Authentic dead
, 87

agency
, 7

control, sense
, 106–107

pop culture star
, 103

Undead, contrast
, 96

usage, responses
, 101–102

women, majority
, 102

Ball, Alan
, 99

Becker, Ernest
, 87, 89

Becker, Howard Saul
, 18

Bereavement/memorialisation
, 2

Bergman, Ingrid
, 20

“Best Is Yet to Come, The” (Sinatra)
, 28

Blackstar (Bowie)
, 27

Blood and Roses
, 70

Bodily control
, 55

Body

consumption
, 77

interest, increase
, 73–74

morbid space, relationship
, 72

parts, transplantation
, 53–54

Undead body, role
, 78–79

Body Farm, The
, 104

Body Parts
, 52

Bonten, Leo
, 41–42

Bowie, David
, 13, 26

posthumous career
, 26–27

Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The
, 52

Branton, Leo
, 30–31

Bronfen, Elisabeth
, 2, 95

Brown, Bobbi Kristina
, 16

Campion-Vincent, Véronique
, 47, 51

Cankeş, Başak
, 101

Carmilla
, 70

Castro, Fidel
, 14

Celebrities

posthumous careers
, 6–7, 9

ownership
, 32–33

typology (Rojek)
, 11

Celebrity Culture and Crime (Penfold-Mounce)
, 11

Celebrity dead

earners
, 29

ownership
, 27

posthumous careers, impact
, 29–30

symbolic/commercial value
, 11–12

Celebrity deaths

polarisation
, 16–17

relationship
, 10

Celebrity, economics
, 28–29

Cellular memory
, 55–56

documented accounts
, 58–59

existence/reports
, 59

impact
, 56–57

narrative form
, 59

passage
, 57

theory
, 57

Cemetery space, history/policy
, 2

Change of Heart (Sylvia)
, 58

Christmas Story, A
, 42

Cirque Du Soleil
, 24

Cleopatra
, 24

Clinical gaze
, 95

Cloning
, 51–52

Cobain, Kurt
, 16, 26

Cohen, Leonard
, 14

Cold Case
, 104

Cole, Nat King/Natalie
, 21

Coma
, 50

Compulsory organ donation
, 51

Control, loss
, 51–53

myth
, 55

Corbett, Ronnie
, 13

Cornwell, Patricia
, 3

Corpses

abjection
, 64

actors
, 96

afterlife
, 41–44

reanimation
, 65–66, 80

representation
, 43

Corruption, narrative
, 49–50

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
, 104

CSI effect
, 104–105

CSI shows
, 104

Cultural conversion
, 3–4

Culture narratives
, 55

Cushing, Peter
, 21–22

Daniels, Paul
, 13

Dark tourism sites, consumption
, 2

Dawn of the Dead
, 68, 80, 84

Day of the Dead
, 68

Dead

confrontation
, 107

encounter
, 111

entertainment

format, popularity
, 88

usage
, 97–98

media consumption
, 88

pieces, agency
, 42–43

popular culture, power
, 116–117

representation
, 100–101

value
, 41–42

viewing, acceptance
, 105–106

Dead, agency
, 1

popular culture usage
, 7

possession
, 5

Dead celebrities

agency
, 12–13

death, categories
, 14

ownership

conflict
, 31

issues
, 30

posthumous careers
, 20

value/influence
, 6–7

Dead Rich List
, 22–23

trends
, 24–25

Dean, James
, 31

Death

accessibility
, 113

avoidance
, 93

celebrities, relationship
, 10

comedy focus
, 2–3

confrontation
, 87

denial, impact
, 89

value
, 93–94

culture portrayals, role
, 94

deliberation
, 66

encounter
, 111

entertainment format, popularity
, 88

exposure

levels
, 88

popular culture, power
, 116–117

fear
, 90–91

gazes
, 95–96

mass cultural perceptions/acceptance
, 4

medicalisation
, 89–90

positive experience
, 9–10

repression
, 87–88

scholarship, popular culture (usage)
, 115

social neutralization
, 94

taboo subject
, 88–89

undiscovered country (Hamlet)
, 112

Death denial

argument, problems
, 91–92

origins
, 90–91

psychological/psychoanalytical origins
, 91

society

term, usage
, 92

Western culture composition
, 114

thesis

challenge
, 92–93

reinforcement
, 107–108

Death Is Not the End (Dylan)
, 1

Denial, impact
, 89

Denial of Death, The (Becker)
, 87, 89

Dietrich, Marlene
, 20, 33

Donation

forced donation
, 50–51

organ donation
, 44–45, 50

Dracula
, 69

Dracula: Dead and Loving It
, 70

D’Rozario, Denver
, 22

Dying

fear
, 91

observation
, 114–115

Dylan, Bob
, 1

Einstein, Albert
, 29

Eugenics
, 51

Eye, The
, 52–53

Face/Off
, 49

“Face of Fashion” (National Portrait Gallery)
, 102

Fearless Vampire Killers, The
, 70

Federline, Kevin
, 102

Fido
, 69

Fisher, Carrie
, 13, 22

Foltyn, Jacque Lynn
, 2, 4-5, 15, 17, 87, 96, 100–101, 103–104

Forced donation
, 50–51

Forensic gaze
, 95

Forensic science, images (integration)
, 104

Forensic scientists, representations
, 107

Forensics, usage
, 103–104

Forsyth, Bruce
, 15

Frankenstein (Shelley)
, 45

Frankenstein monster, themes (impact)
, 45–46

Frankenstein-rooted mythology, representations
, 45–46

From Dusk till Dawn
, 69

Funeral directors, work
, 2

Gabor, Zsa Zsa
, 14

Garbo, Greta
, 20

Gazes
, 94–95

Gein, Ed
, 42

Giles, David
, 11–12, 36

Goody, Jade
, 16

Graceland, openings
, 26

Haggard, Merle
, 13

Hamlet (Shakespeare)
, 111–112

Hands of Orlac, The
, 51, 52

Harris, Keith
, 13

Harris, Thomas
, 42

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
, 113

Hendrix, Al
, 30–31

Hendrix, Jimi
, 30–31

Hepburn, Audrey
, 20

Horrible Histories
, 113

Houston, Whitney
, 16

“I’m Gonna Live till I Die” (Sinatra)
, 27

Immortal Tour, The (Cirque Du Soleil)
, 24

Interview with the Vampire
, 70, 81

Island, The
, 51

IZombie
, 77, 81–82

Jackson, Michael
, 6, 23–24

Dead Rich List
, 22

hologram
, 21

posthumous career, success
, 27

posthumous earnings
, 23f

Jackson, Peter
, 29

Jones, Bobby
, 33

Jones, Steve and Jensen, Joli
, 3, 5

Joplin, Janis
, 16

Karnstein Trilogy, The
, 70

Kearl, Michael C.
, 11, 21, 88

Kellehear, Allan
, 2, 90–92

Kelly, Grace
, 33

Khapaeva, Dina
, 6, 64–65, 81, 94, 114

Klein, Steven
, 102

Kristeva, Julia
, 71

Lauro, Sarah Juliet and Embry, Karen
, 77

Ledger, Heath
, 16

Lee, Harper
, 14

Life/death, boundary crossing
, 54

Limbs, transplantation
, 53

Living, suspension
, 54

Lord of the Rings, The
, 29

Mad Love
, 51

Mansion of the Doomed
, 52–53

McDermid, Val
, 3

McQueen, Steve
, 20

“Message to the Public” (Scott)
, 19

Michael, George
, 13, 16

Mini Marilyn
, 34

Mitford, Jessica
, 87

Monroe, Marilyn
, 6, 20

ownership
, 33–34

Monster Calls, A
, 113

Monsters

fictional monsters
, 77

Undead, association
, 75–76

Monstrosity, containment
, 84–85

Moore, Liv
, 77

Morbid sensibility
, 63, 65

dead mobilisers
, 89

impact
, 66–67

mobilisation
, 93

Morbid space
, 63

body, relationship
, 72

selfhood, relationship
, 79

Undead, relationship
, 71

Morrison, Jim
, 16

Mortality

issues (addition), morbid sensibility (impact)
, 67

vicarious experiences
, 113

My Best Friend is a Vampire
, 70

Myths, significance
, 60–61, 115–116

National Portrait Gallery, “Face of Fashion,”
, 102

Never Let Me Go
, 51

Night of the Living Dead
, 68, 80

Oates, Lawrence
, 18–19

O’Neal, Shaquille
, 33

O’Neill, Robert, D
, 43, 45, 48–49, 52–53

One Direction
, 22

“Order of the Good Death, The,”
, 92

Organ donation

compulsory organ donation
, 51

mythology
, 44–45

voluntary action
, 50

Organ shortages
, 50

Organ transplantation
, 41

mythology, popular culture examination
, 48–49

scholarship, range
, 43–44

Ossorio, Sonia
, 102

Othered identity
, 78–79

Otherness
, 58–59

Others, body (difference)
, 82

Out of home advertising (OOH)
, 33

Penfold-Mounce, Ruth
, 3-4, 7, 28, 42, 52, 55, 66, 67, 71–72, 94, 105–106, 115–117

Perry, Katy
, 22

Pierson, David P.
, 95, 107

Popular culture

death/dead, encounter
, 111, 113–114

glossy topics
, 115–117

power
, 116–117

usage
, 115

Posthumous career, Williams management
, 34–36

Posthumous performing
, 21–22

Presley, Elvis
, 33

posthumous career
, 25–26

posthumous earnings
, 25f

Price and Prejudice and Zombies
, 69

Primordial terror
, 94

Prince
, 13, 26

posthumous career
, 26–27

Princess Diana
, 33

Princess Grace of Monaco
, 20, 33–34

Provocative morbid space
, 79, 82, 117

Public relations (PR)
, 33

Pushing Daisies
, 100

Returned, The
, 81, 82

Reynolds, Debbie
, 13

Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan
, 10

Richardson, Natasha
, 17

Rickman, Alan
, 13

Robin Williams Trust
, 35

Rogers, Ginger
, 32

Rogue One
, 21–22

Romero, George
, 80, 84

Ronge, Barry
, 31

Royal Wedding
, 32

Safe morbid space
, 74–75, 117

Savile, Jimmy (notoriety)
, 28

Schultz, Charles
, 23

posthumous earnings
, 29

Science, threat
, 49

Scott, Robert Falcon
, 18

Second-hand reality
, 46

Second wave feminism
, 73

Selfhood

absence
, 83–84

loss
, 80

morbid space, relationship
, 79

Self, sense (loss)
, 79–80

Senna, Ayrton
, 18

Shaun of the Dead
, 69, 84

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
, 45

Silence of the Lambs, The (Harris)
, 42

Silent Witness
, 104

Simpsons, The
, 53

Sinatra, Frank
, 27–28

Six Feet Under
, 97–100

Slaughter, Karin
, 3

Smith, Anna Nicole
, 17–18

Social-science fiction/research
, 67

Space, creation
, 94

Special dead, commemoration
, 10–11

Star Wars: A New Hope
, 22

Stoker, Bram
, 85

Superette
, 101

Swiss Army Man
, 97

Sylvia, Claire
, 58

Symbolic Exchange and Death (Baudrillard)
, 4–5

Taylor, Elizabeth
, 6, 14, 23–24

posthumous earnings
, 24f

Tenga, Angela and Zimmerman, Elizabeth
, 68, 70

That’s Entertainment! III
, 32

Timely (dead celebrity death category)
, 14

Tolkien, JRR
, 29

Top Earning Dead Celebrities (Dead Rich List)
, 22–23

trends
, 24–25

Tragic (dead celebrity death category)
, 14, 15

Tragic-foolish (dead celebrity death category)
, 14, 17–18

Tragic-heroic (dead celebrity death category)
, 14

Transplantation
, 55

mechanical process
, 57

recipients, cellular memory (documented accounts)
, 58–59

recipients, experience
, 56–57

non-fictional accounts
, 57–58

stories, plots
, 48–49

Transplantation mythology
, 46

catalyst
, 45

examples
, 47

roots
, 44

theme, recurrence
, 47

True Blood
, 69, 77

Trust, misplacement
, 49–50

27 Club
, 15–16

28 Days Later
, 68, 75

Twilight Saga
, 69–71, 81

Undead
, 63

agency

display
, 74–75

morbid sensibility, impact
, 66–67

authentic dead, contrast
, 96

body, role
, 78–79

cannibalistic tendencies
, 77

fictional monsters
, 77

horror/fantasy genre
, 67

horror-fantasy setting
, 72

monster, associations
, 75–76

monstrosity, containment
, 84–85

morbid sensibility
, 65

morbid space
, 71

Othered identity
, 78–79

popularity, increase
, 64–65

types
, 63–64

viewer consumption
, 74

“Unforgettable” (recording)
, 21

Untamed Heart
, 56

Vampire Diaries, The
, 64–65, 81

Vampires
, 63–64

cultural norms, subversion
, 70–71

dominance, challenges
, 81–82

eroticism
, 70

nonhuman ideal
, 81

zombies, contrast
, 69–70

Waking the Dead
, 104

Walker, Paul
, 17

Walking Dead, The
, 64–65, 68, 76

Walter, Tony
, 5, 66, 92–94

Warm Bodies
, 69, 81, 82

Weekend at Bernie’s
, 97

Western culture, death denial societies
, 114

Wilder, Gene
, 13

Williams, Robin
, 6

posthumous career management
, 34–36

Windfall Foundation
, 35–36

Winehouse, Amy
, 16

W Magazine
, 101

Wogan, Terry
, 13

Wood, Victoria
, 13

Woodthorpe, Kate
, 2, 5, 113

World War Z
, 69

Xenotransplantation
, 51–52

fictional accounts
, 49

Zombieland
, 69

Zombies
, 63–64

agency, display
, 76–77

blankness
, 83–84

decomposition
, 76–77

genre, capitalist society representation
, 84

metaphors, Alzheimer’s disease (relationship)
, 83

morbid sensibility vehicle
, 68–69, 83–84

portrayals
, 68–69

selfhood, loss
, 80–81

vampires, contrast
, 69–70