Serial Killers and Serial Spectators : Cultures, Narratives, and Representations / edited by Anhiti Patnaik and Elana Gomel.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024 | Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 107.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- Cultures, Narratives, and Representations
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Anhiti Patnaik and Elana Gomel -- Copyright Page / Anhiti Patnaik and Elana Gomel -- Chapter 1 Abattoir Elegantiarum: Fashion Victimology and Hannibal 's Grand Designs / Seth Wilder -- Chapter 2 Eat, Sleep, Read, Repeat: Excess and Enjoyment in Tomie / Shweta Khilnani -- Chapter 3 Caught in Observation: Sublime tableaux morts in Female Serial Killer Narratives / Natalia Igl -- Chapter 4 "The Horror in Whitechapel": Sensational Journalism in the Jack the Ripper Murders / Chen F. Michaeli -- Chapter 5 (Wo)Mens Rea: The Strange Case of Anne Perry and Murder of/for/by Women / Anhiti Patnaik -- Chapter 6 A Poetics of Restlessness: The House That Jack Built and the Conventions of Serial Killer Fiction / Luciano Cabral and Pedro Sasse -- Chapter 7 Murder and Meaning: The Ordinariness of Violence in Memories of Murder / Reza Pourmikail -- Chapter 8 Lurid and Unlimited: Interpreting Bateman's Banality in American Psycho / Patrick Lawrence -- Chapter 9 The Digital Banal and Sublime Justice in Chinese Internet Literature / Lina Qu -- Chapter 10 "Blood on the Snow": Nordic Noir as a Fantasy Travelog / Elana Gomel -- Chapter 11 " Le immagini ti guardano ": The Gallery City in the Giallo Genre of Italian Cinema / Peter Vorissis -- Chapter 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.
Serial murder is a global entertainment industry where the serial killer emerges as one of the most significant cultural figures of our time. No longer an exclusively Anglo-American phenomenon, narratives of serial killing are widespread in India, China, Japan, and other cultures. This book asks why this is the case, and how serial violence has been aestheticized in different contexts. It raises important questions regarding the ethics of spectatorship, complicity, and resistance. Unique in its transnational reach, it covers both novels and visual media, both West and East, both perpetrators and witnesses.
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