Natural born celebrities : serial killers in American culture /
Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-for-TV movies and mass-market paperbacks alike. But why do we find such luridly transgressive and horrific individuals so fascinating? What compels us to...
Основен автор: | Schmid, David |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2005.
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Natural born celebrities. |
Съдържание:
- The Victorian killer as media star : Jack the Ripper and H.H. Holmes
- Defining the enemy within : the FBI and serial murder
- Natural born celebrities : serial killers and the Hollywood star system
- Out of this world : aliens, devils, and serial killers in television crime drama
- Next door monsters : the dialectic of normality and monstrosity in true-crime narratives
- The unbearable straightness of violence : queering serial murder in true crime.