Kenneth A. Loparo 
Women and Death in Film, Television, and News 
Dead but Not Gone

Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts.

Table of Content

1. Introduction 2. Film Narratives, Dead Women, and Their Meaning in a Changing World 3. Family Films Gone Terribly Wrong: The Lovely Bones (2009) and Disturbia (2007) 4. Television Narratives and Dead Women: Channelling Change 5. News-Mediated Narratives of Disappearance: Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, Natalee Holloway, and Conventions of Dead Women in the News Conclusion

About the author

Joanne Clarke Dillman is Lecturer in Communication Arts and Culture at the University of Washington, Tacoma, USA.