Natural born celebrities serial killers in American culture /

Main Author: Schmid, David
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10265985
Table of Contents:
  • 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.