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The Bridgend suicides captured the attention of media outlets around the world. Thousands of journalists descended on the borough of Bridgend in South Wales in 2008, all trying to figure out why these suicides were happening. More recently two films have been produced on the events in the town—a documentary (2013) (which Luce points out follows the same categories of stigmatization as newspaper articles of the time) and a feature film which will be released in UK cinemas in 2016, which closely follows categories of stigmatization, but deliberately refuses to offer any explanations as to why the suicides occurred—a very different attitude when it comes to how suicide is most commonly framed.
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Luce, A. (2016). Bridgend in Film. In: The Bridgend Suicides. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39293-0_6
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