Elizabeth Klaver is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University. She is the editor of Images of the Corpse: From the Renaissance to Cyberspace and the author of Performing Television: Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Autopsy: A Context

2. Performance, Autopsy, and the Performative

3. Autopsy and the Subject; or, What the Dead Saw

4. Autopsy and the Social: The Case of John F. Kennedy

5. Autopsy and the Popular

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Notes

Works Cited

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