Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface vii
4. List of Figures and Tables x
5. Notes on the Contributors xi
6. Acknowledgements xix
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 “Buried in the Open Fields”: Early Modern Suicide and the Case of Ofelia 11
9. 2 “To Live Deliberately”: Agency and Locus of Control in Dead Poets Society 24
10. 3 The Complexities of the Documentary The Bridge as Heterotopia 45
11. 4 “I (Don’t) Want to Kill Myself”: Tensions between Suicidal Hope and Joyful Despair in HBO’s The Leftovers 67
12. 5 Pain Advocates: Reimagining Suicide Narratives from the Perspectives of Chronic Pain Patients 87
13. 6 Celebrity Suicide as Opportunity for Public Education: Professional Medical Sources and Themes in Press Coverage of Anthony Bourdain’s Suicide 115
14. 7 Media Representations of Farmer Suicide as Social Drama: From Breach to Crisis to Redressive Action 133
15. 8 Reducing Suicide Risks among Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender Diverse Youth through Social Media Interventions 154
16. 9 Suicide Goes Public: Suicide Prevention/Education and Grief Literacy in the Young Adult Literature Section of the Public Library 174
17. 10 Pop Culture as Pedagogy: Breaking the Silence on Suicide in the Undergraduate Classroom 199
18. Index 218