Diana is no longer limited to photographs and interviews in her lifetime. She is experiencing a successful posthumous career without her consent.
- Senior Lecturer, Criminology, University of York
Even in death, men are able to earn far more than women.
Everyone dies, so why are so many people still afraid to talk about it?
For the British press, the car crash that killed the Diana rewrote the rules on reporting celebrity deaths.
On screen violence against women is increasingly detailed, intimate and frighteningly authentic – but there’s often just no need.
People have always loved a bit of old-fashioned villainy.
If you’re a celebrity, avoiding a life after death is possible but needs to be very carefully legally framed.
CSI and its franchise has achieved something unique: making forensics glamorous and sexy and fuelling public fascination with the dead.
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