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