Dr Denver D'Rozario, who has written several academic papers on the post-mortem life of dead celebrities on screen, coined the term 'Delebs' to describe the digitally resurrected icons and said the practice still remained a moral minefield.
Oprah's Book Club resurrected sales of decades-old classics through simple cover redesigns and the imprimatur of the club's sticker.
In the aftermath of the Guardian's story on the Real IRA today and the dissident group's bellicose warning to bankers and the banking system, the "oxygen of publicity" argument was resurrected once more.
The program was mothballed in March of last year, based on BJS's own judgment of its shortcomings, but it may be resurrected with the renewal by Congress last December of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act of 2000, designed primarily to count deaths in prisons and jails.
Paul Kelly: The Australian (paywalled) Kevin Rudd is resurrected, Julia Gillard's career is destroyed and Rudd has launched a new crusade to halt the Tony Abbott bandwagon.
" D'Rozario said the appeal in using digitally resurrected legendary stars also lay in the fact that, because they are dead, they had no way of getting into any scandal which could damage their reputation and the reputation of the film or advert.
Maybe the real question is not why Jacobs wanted to resurrect Daphne and Celeste but why they were willing to be resurrected.
Here's Paul (and be sure to stay for the kicker): The buzz of Washington activity was quickly resurrected on Thursday morning, as tourists, deprived of some of the country's best known sights, flocked to the reopened destinations.
The ECB's then chief executive and chairman have since moved on and it was this sense of regime change that gave Pietersen hope his England career could be resurrected.
Death, once the finite end to a celebrity career, is now only a marker for the next stage, and digitally resurrected celebrities – be they Paul Walker or Audrey Hepburn – are now posthumously making their way back onto our screens.
"Up till now, most celebrities when they died did not leave clear instructions to their heirs and estates on what could be done with their image or likeness, so most have a free reign to make a real windfall from allowing the image of the celebrity to be resurrected through technology.
