TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmid,David
TI  - Natural born celebrities: serial killers in American culture 
SN  - 0226738698 (pbk.)
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago, Ill., Bristol
PB  - University of Chicago Press, University Presses Marketing [distributor]
KW  - Serial murderers
KW  - United States
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Crime in popular culture
KW  - Serial murders in mass media
KW  - Fame
N1  - 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
ER  -