The Aestheticization of Mortality: A Comparative Analysis of Terminal Illness Narratives in Boardwalk Winter, Life in a Year, and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl The cinematic landscape of the twenty-first century has witnessed the stabilization of a distinct subgenre of drama: the terminal illness narrative, frequently categorized within Young Adult (YA) o…

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