Natural born celebrities : serial killers in American culture / David Schmid.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2006.Description: viii, 327 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0226738698 (pbk.)
  • 9780226738697 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Introduction. Idols of destructions : celebrity, consumerism, and the serial killers -- pt. 1. A history of serial murder -- 1. The Victorian killer as media star : Jack the Ripper and H.H. Holmes -- 2. Defining the enemy within : the FBI and serial murder -- pt. 2. Serial murder in American popular culture -- 3. Natural born celebrities : serial killers and the Hollywood star system -- 4. Out of this world : aliens, devils, and serial killers in television crime drama -- 5. Next door monsters : the dialectic of normality and monstrosity in true-crime narratives -- 6. The unbearable straightness of violence : queering serial murder in true crime -- Epilogue. SErial killing in America after 9/11.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection HV 6529 .S32 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98634649
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection HV 6529 .D32 2005 C.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98634882

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Idols of destructions : celebrity, consumerism, and the serial killers -- pt. 1. A history of serial murder -- 1. The Victorian killer as media star : Jack the Ripper and H.H. Holmes -- 2. Defining the enemy within : the FBI and serial murder -- pt. 2. Serial murder in American popular culture -- 3. Natural born celebrities : serial killers and the Hollywood star system -- 4. Out of this world : aliens, devils, and serial killers in television crime drama -- 5. Next door monsters : the dialectic of normality and monstrosity in true-crime narratives -- 6. The unbearable straightness of violence : queering serial murder in true crime -- Epilogue. SErial killing in America after 9/11.

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