Homme Fatal: Illegitimate Pleasures in Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. Murders and Acquisitions explores the social and political implications of this cultural figure. The collection argues that the often blood-chil...
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| description | The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. Murders and Acquisitions explores the social and political implications of this cultural figure. The collection argues that the often blood-chilling representations of the serial killer and serial killing offered in TV series, films, novels and fan productions function to address contemporary concerns and preoccupations. Focusing on well-known popular culture texts, such as The Wire, Kiss the Girls, Monster, the Saw series, American Psycho, The Strangers, CSI and Dexter, this eclectic anthology engages with a broad spectrum of cultural theory and performs critical textual analysis to examine the sophisticated ways the serial killer is deployed to mediate and/or work through cultural anxieties and fears. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-262472017-01-30T12:52:30Z Homme Fatal: Illegitimate Pleasures in Darkly Dreaming Dexter Buchbinder, David McGuire, Ann Alzena MacDonald The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. Murders and Acquisitions explores the social and political implications of this cultural figure. The collection argues that the often blood-chilling representations of the serial killer and serial killing offered in TV series, films, novels and fan productions function to address contemporary concerns and preoccupations. Focusing on well-known popular culture texts, such as The Wire, Kiss the Girls, Monster, the Saw series, American Psycho, The Strangers, CSI and Dexter, this eclectic anthology engages with a broad spectrum of cultural theory and performs critical textual analysis to examine the sophisticated ways the serial killer is deployed to mediate and/or work through cultural anxieties and fears. 2013 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26247 Bloomsbury restricted |
| spellingShingle | Buchbinder, David McGuire, Ann Homme Fatal: Illegitimate Pleasures in Darkly Dreaming Dexter |
| title | Homme Fatal: Illegitimate Pleasures in Darkly Dreaming Dexter |
| title_full | Homme Fatal: Illegitimate Pleasures in Darkly Dreaming Dexter |
| title_fullStr | Homme Fatal: Illegitimate Pleasures in Darkly Dreaming Dexter |
| title_full_unstemmed | Homme Fatal: Illegitimate Pleasures in Darkly Dreaming Dexter |
| title_short | Homme Fatal: Illegitimate Pleasures in Darkly Dreaming Dexter |
| title_sort | homme fatal: illegitimate pleasures in darkly dreaming dexter |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26247 |