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Serial Killers and Serial Spectators: Cultures, Narratives, and Representations

✍ Scribed by Anhiti Patnaik (editor), Elana Gomel (editor)

Publisher
Brill
Year
2024
Tongue
English
Leaves
274
Series
Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature; 107
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Serial killers are popular-culture icons, selling books, movies and podcasts in every country in the world. This innovative and timely book uses methods in Media and Cultural Studies to analyse why global audiences are mesmerised by representations of serial killing. Unique in its transnational case studies, it addresses serial murder through a new perspective of the “serial spectator.”

✦ Table of Contents

‎Contents
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Introduction. The Spectacle of Serial Violence in Global Literature and Media
‎Part 1. Seriality of Violence
‎1. Abattoir Elegantiarum: Fashion Victimology and Hannibal’s Grand Designs • Seth Wilder
‎2. Eat, Sleep, Read, Repeat: Excess and Enjoyment in Tomie • Shweta Khilnani
‎3. Caught in Observation: Sublime tableaux morts in Female Serial Killer Narratives • Natalia Igl
‎Part 2. Moral Panics and Murderous Sublime
‎4. “The Horror in Whitechapel”: Sensational Journalism in the Jack the Ripper Murders • Chen F. Michaeli
‎5. (Wo)Mens Rea: The Strange Case of Anne Perry and Murder of/for/by Women • Anhiti Patnaik
‎6. A Poetics of Restlessness: The House That Jack Built and the Conventions of Serial Killer Fiction • Luciano Cabral and Pedro Sasse
‎Part 3. Transnational Evil of Banality
‎7. Murder and Meaning: The Ordinariness of Violence in Memories of Murder • Reza Pourmikail
‎8. Lurid and Unlimited: Interpreting Bateman’s Banality in American Psycho • Patrick Lawrence
‎9. The Digital Banal and Sublime Justice in Chinese Internet Literature • Lina Qu
‎Part 4. Spacetime of Violence
‎10. “Blood on the Snow”: Nordic Noir as a Fantasy Travelog • Elana Gomel
11. “Le immagini ti guardano”: The Gallery City in the Giallo Genre of Italian Cinema • Peter Vorissis
12. Santushti and Jodidar through Serial Killing in Raman Raghav 2.0 • Aratrika Das
‎Conclusion. Healing through Horror in a Pandemic: The Editors in Dialogue • Anhiti Patnaik and Elana Gomel
‎Index

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