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As the number of university students in Britain has expanded so has public interest in them, expressed across a range of media. This talk will explore how the idea of 'the student' is conceptualised, constructed, and negotiated in recent British television documentary, drama and comedy genres. Conceiving of television as a space in which people experience and engage with complex social understandings, we examine how the representation of the student on the British television screen has shifted in recent years from positioning students predominantly as fun-loving, promiscuous and irresponsible to emphasising the ways in which they are vulnerable and increasingly politically charged subjects, whilst universities themselves have come to be represented as predatory and profit driven enterprises. Please be aware that this talk includes reference to both fictional and factual televisual coverage of the topics of student suicide and sexual assault.

1: Introduction to Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture -- 2: "To Show the Problem Inside and Out": Representations of Mental Illness and Suicide in Eric Steel's The Bridge -- 3: Twenty-First Century Digital Snuff: The Circulation of Images and Videos of Real Death Online -- 4: Streaming death: terrorist violence and the digital afterlife of difficult death -- 5: 'Death. Carnage. Chaos': mortality and mountaineering on-screen, and on the roof of the world -- 6: Bodies on the Battlefield: Death and Combat in Band of Brothers -- 7: Melissa Merchant and Simon Order - Representing Fatal Violence in AMC's The Walking Dead: The Role of Legitimation, Graphicness and Explicitness -- 8: Are Normative Death Narratives Celebrated, Reinforced, or Disrupted in Popular Media? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Coco and Soul -- 9: Hashtag feminism: challenging rape and femicide in South Africa -- 10: A Weaponized Landscape: Hart Island's Geography of Denial -- 11: Shakespeare: Difficult Dead Celebrity Child -- 12: There is nothing like a dead man to demand existence' (Antonin Artaud) -- 13: Difficult Deaths and Awkward Agendas: How Mainstream News Media Negotiate Coverage of Politically Dissonant Victims -- 14: Dissected, torn, and exposed: the death and remains of the Jack the Ripper victims in the Illustrated Police News -- 15: Photographing Death to Save Photojournalism Mafia Homicides in Letizia Battaglia's "Archive of Blood" -- 16: Economies of Mortalities: Ageism and Disposability During the Covid-19 Pandemic -- 17: Reflecting grief during a pandemic: online UK newspapers' reportage and researchers' experiences -- 18: Conclusion to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. .

Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines how gender changes and manifests in stories and film through several different types of beings. With sections on social death, the walking dead, and the undead, this is a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture creatures.