Suicide in Popular Media and Culture
Studies in Framing a Social Catastrophe
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Published:17th Mar '26
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Popular media are powerful mirrors and makers of meaning around suicide.
This book brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine how suicide is mythologized, politicized and challenged across film, TV, young adult literature, digital platforms, online communities, and more. From news coverage of celebrity suicide to social media interventions with at-risk youth, this wide-ranging collection explores suicide’s intersections with class, gender, chronic illness and cultural identity.
Bridging academic analysis and lived realities, this volume offers vital tools for understanding, teaching and reimagining how suicide circulates in the stories we consume and create.
‘This powerful, accessible and much-needed interdisciplinary collection expands our understanding of a fiercely contested subject: how suicide is portrayed in popular culture and media. It is vital reading for all.’ Alexandre Baril, University of Ottawa
‘An engaging collection with a broad, varied range of methodological approaches, conceptual ideas, textual analyses and projects on show – it offers a fresh and insightful addition to critical suicide studies.’ Michael-Fox, The Death Studies Podcast
'The book transcends traditional psychological or epidemiological approaches to suicide... It offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary interrogation of the frames through which popular culture constructs, commodifies and communicates self-destruction.' The Journal of Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781529233469
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246 pages