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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."
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 Santusthi 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
