ABSTRACT Whereas sorrow and eulogizing typically accompany death, the television program 1000 Ways to Die transforms tragedy into palatable, commodified spectacle. The show shirks the traditional conventions of screen death and strings together bingeable televisual narratives of misfortune by borrowing from the historical lineage of death on television news, “mondo” films, and Internet clips featuring actual deaths. These mediated representations maximize the spectacle of death and invite schadenfreude while minimizing its tragic and human components. The gaze-inducing images of death reduce individuals to a “grotesque body” as opposed to a person. Additionally, by villainizing the deceased and constructing them as antagonists responsible for their own deaths, death itself becomes the text’s hero and restorer of karmic order.

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死亡的1000种方式：悲剧化与死者安葬的电视模板

摘要虽然悲伤和颂词通常伴随死亡，但电视节目1000死亡之道却将悲剧变成了可口的商品化眼镜。该节目通过借鉴电视新闻，“蒙多”电影和具有实际死亡特征的互联网片段的历史沿袭，推翻了屏幕死亡的传统习俗，将可悲的不幸的电视叙事结合在一起。这些介导的表征使死亡的景象最大化，并邀请了幸灾乐祸，同时将其悲剧性和人为因素降至最低。凝视死亡的图像将个人还原为“怪异的身体”，而不是一个人。此外，通过对死者进行反派化，并将其构造成对自己死亡负有责任的对立者，死亡本身成为文本的英雄和业力恢复者。