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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...

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Основен автор: Schmid, David
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ℗♭2005.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: 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.