Autopsies en séries : la transparence et l’ombre

Death has disappeared from Western societies in the sense that it has become invisible. Is this the reason why it reappears now in autopsy-based television series? The exhibition of the corpse which does not participate in any way in the economy of the plot invites to conclude accordingly. Considering these often unbearable images, it would also be tempting to conclude to a return to a realism beyond which nothing else can be said. However, the scene which is assumed to be realistic is reinvested in the aesthetic field, transforming the death it was supposed to show