{"588730":{"#nid":"588730","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Book Publication by Dina Khapaeva","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/2b344d8b-de67-5be5-bc99-973aaada5113\u0022\u003EDina Khapaeva\u003C\/a\u003E, Professor of Russian at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Modern Languages\u003C\/a\u003E, recently authored a new book entitled \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/9297025\/celebration_of_death_in_contemporary_culture\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (University of Michigan Press, 2017). \u0026nbsp;The book investigates the\u0026nbsp;cult of death, a unique way of engaging with death that crystallized in Western culture around the mid-1990s.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in popularity and dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry. \u0026quot;Corpse chic\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;skull style\u0026quot; have joined mainstream fashion trends, while gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into conventional genres. Vampires, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. \u003Cem\u003EThe Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture \u003C\/em\u003Econsiders, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. The book offers a framework that connects the observations of the world of fiction and movies\u0026mdash;including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETwilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal\u003C\/em\u003E, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EHarry Potter\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;series\u0026mdash;to current social and cultural practices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis book will appeal not only to students in cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies, but also to a general public hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo purchase or find more information about this book, please visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/9297025\/celebration_of_death_in_contemporary_culture\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/9297025\/celebration_of_death_in_contemporary_culture\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dina Khapaeva, Professor of Russian, recently authored a new book entitled The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture"}],"uid":"28754","created_gmt":"2017-03-14 16:46:58","changed_gmt":"2017-03-14 16:46:58","author":"T. Jesse Brannen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588729":{"id":"588729","type":"image","title":"Dina\u0027s book","body":null,"created":"1489509809","gmt_created":"2017-03-14 16:43:29","changed":"1489509809","gmt_changed":"2017-03-14 16:43:29","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224371","name":"DIna Book.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DIna%20Book.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DIna%20Book.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":44857,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DIna%20Book.jpg?itok=wisyEl9f"}}},"media_ids":["588729"],"groups":[{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"554011","name":"_OLD: School of Modern Languages Student Blog"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}