McDeath: Suicide and Mourning in Fast Food Nation Davids ...
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Dir. Morgan Spurlock. Perf. Morgan Spurlock. Samuel Goldwyn Films 2004. Schlosser Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal. 2001. ...
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McDeath: Suicide and Mourning in Fast Food Nation Davids Redhaired Death and Super Size MePage 1McDeath: Suicide and Mourning in Fast Food Nation Davids Redhaired Death and Super Size MeOne of the unlikely threads tying together these three seeminglydisparate textsa journalistic expos of the fast food industry a play about the builtin comfort of a meal that can be duplicated anywhere in the world and a documentary about the deleterious effects of a 30day fast food dietis the need to create a narrative within which suicide can be understood and then mourned. The willfulness of the act of suicide is such that it inevitably involves its own narrativebe it through a note left behind explaining the motives or by the manner in which each person chooses to diethe sudden and often violent cessation of life involved in suicide demands at least a legal reckoning. Autopsies must be performed death certificates must be filed the relatives of the deceased must be located and notified. These formal reports of the circumstances surrounding the death of a suicide do not provide an answer as to why the suicide itself took place. Those people the suicide leaves behind when ending his/her life have to find a way to incorporate the fact of this death into the ongoing and constantly unfolding narratives of their own lives. McDonalds fast food plays a sinister indirect role in the death narratives contained within both Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me: first because director Morgan Spurlock does not actually die while on his selfimposed highfat McDonalds diet and second because Hank the ecofriendly cattle rancher Eric Schlosser befriends while researching his book has no direct business ties to the McDonalds corporation per se when he kills himself. Sherry Kramers play by contrast portrays a meal from McDonalds as a palliative that restores her protagonists sense of well being and keeps the memory of her brothers suicide at bay. Davids Redhaired Death Fast Food Nation a ...
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