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Of Men And Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer And The Construction of the Serial Killer
Richard Tithecott
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Description for Of Men And Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer And The Construction of the Serial Killer
Paperback. A text which explores the serial killer as an American cultural icon. Tithecott considers the ways in which the American media has dealt with examples of real and fictional serial killers, and argues that the serial killer we construct for ourselves is a figure both repulsive and attractive who fulfils dreams of masculinity, purity, and violence. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 277.
Of Men and Monsters 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 they do about the killers themselves.
Of Men and Monsters 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 they do about the killers themselves.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299156848
SKU
V9780299156848
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99-1
About Richard Tithecott
Richard Tithecott is an administrative director at the University of Southern California. He is coeditor of the Signet Classic edition of My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London.
Reviews for Of Men And Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer And The Construction of the Serial Killer
In this post-modern reading, Jeffrey Dahmer is not a page in the history of true crime but a Monster who serves many rhetorical and cultural functions." —Philip Jenkins, Penn State University, author of Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide "Brilliantly compelling. Tithecott challenges us to investigate our simultaneous distancing from and fascination with serial murder."—Maria Tatar, Harvard University, author of Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany "Tithecott takes aim at the unsettling disparity of attention between murderer and murdered."—Chris Bull, Washington Post