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Of men and monsters : Jeffrey Dahmer and the construction of the serial killer /
"Examines the serial killer as an American cultural icon, one that both attracts and repels. Richard Tithecott suggests that the stories we tell and the images we conjure of serial killers--real and fictional--reveal as much about mainstream culture and its values, desires, and anxieties as the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Defining the monster : serial killing and the FBI
- Investigating the serial killer
- Investigating the serial killer : silencing the unspeakable
- Jeffrey Dahmer : gay, white cannibal
- The horror in the mirror : average Joe and the mechanical monster
- Confessing the unspeakable
- Supercops and superkillers
- The monstrous self : dreaming up reality
- Sanity, Satan, and sanitized evil
- Fantasies of power.