About the book: 2021 / This book is dedicated to thanatopathy - the fascination of our society with death. Thirty years ago, Halloween didn't compete with Christmas, black tourism wasn't a booming industry, corpse chic didn't dictate the style of cheap fashion, green funerals seemed like an eccentric choice for singles, and vampires, zombies, cannibals and serial killers weren't the favorites. heroes of the public, young and old. Having become entertainment, the spectacle of virtual violent death changes our ideas about man, his place among other living beings and the value of human life, as well as whether a person can be eaten. The book takes a new approach, examining for the first time the revolution in rituals and practices associated with death and the evolution of the depiction of violence in novels and films as a single cultural process. The long history of criticism of humanism and anthropocentrism by French theory, the animal rights movement, transhumanism and posthumanism allows us to trace the stages of the transformation of anti-humanism into a hot commodity in the entertainment industry.