Jade's Dying Body
The Ultimate Reality Show
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tony Walter (0000-0001-9571-5225, University of Bath, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 105-115 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.2061 |
| OpenAlex | W2023207175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 25 |
The article analyses the scale of, and reactions to, print media coverage of the dying from cancer in 2009 of young British media celebrity Jade Goody. Some sociologists have argued that death is sequestrated, with the dying body particularly hidden and problematic; hence the sociological significance of the intense and high profile coverage of Jade's final weeks. In particular, the baroque emotionality of press photos, especially those which glamorised her baldness (the result of failed chemotherapy), challenges the sequestration thesis. Reactions were complex, with criticism of her public dying mixed with criticism of reality television in general, together with class prejudice. New media's blurring of public and private creates new arenas for publicising the bodily, personal and emotional experience of dying, while at the same time affirming the public/private boundary so that the ordinary dying of ordinary people remains substantially hidden
Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Emotionality · Media studies · Political science · Reality television · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media Influence and Health · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Public Dying
The Glorious Disappearance of Vaishnavas
On the contingency of death
Jade and the journalists
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Christopher Hitchens’ Public Dying
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What a girl's gotta do
Death, working-class culture and social distinction
Going Public
Media and Class-making
The Domestication of Death
Making death 'good
Purity and Danger
Western Attitudes toward Death
Media and Health
Death and Social Structure †
The social reality of religion
Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death
The Female Complaint
In Morte Media Jubilate [2]
Advertising Six Feet Under
Constructing Death
Making the Most out of 15 Minutes
Performing the Real
The sight and sound of death
Death. So What? Sociology, Sequestration and Emancipation
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Death in the News
Modernity, Self-Identity and the Sequestration of Death
Cancer Heroics
Representing childhood cancer
Contemporary Hospice Care
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |