Death on the small screen : the psychology of viewing violent television /
Even though mortality remains a taboo topic in much of Western society, death and violence continue to be staples of popular television shows. We can better understand the appeal of violence in popular television by investigating psychological theories surrounding anxiety about death and the defense...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- Dying to Watch: The Role of Death Anxiety in the Appeal of Fictional Violence
- The Paramount Place of Death in Human Psychology: An Overview of Terror Management theory
- Applying TMT to Illumine the Motives for and Reactions to Fictional Violence
- There Is Only One Thing We Say to Death-Not Today: Battling Existential Terror in HBO's Game of Thrones
- Death-Denying (Super)heroism: Gender, Trauma, and Violence in Marvel's The Punisher on Netflix
- Death-Confronting (Super)heroism: Facing Existential and Social Problems in Marvel's Jessica Jones on Netflix
- Moral and Existential Dilemmas and the Quest for Death Transcendence in the FX Television Series Sons of Anarchy
- Giving Voice to the Unmentionable: The Appeal of Transcending Mortality and Corporeality in the NBC Television Series Hannibal