Serial Killers in Contemporary Television: Familiar Monsters in Post-9/11 Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032202501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 218 str.

Brett A. B. Robinson; Christine Daigle

Opis

This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in post 9/11 television. It will be a fascinating read for all those at the intersection of television studies, film studies, psychology, popular culture, media studies, philosophy, genre studies and horror studies.

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Introduction - From the Shadows to Our Living Rooms: Serial Killers on Popular TV after 9/11;  Section I A Dark Empathy: Identification with Killer Characters;  1. When the Monsters are Real (and They Understand Us): The Horror of Hannibal;  2. Born in Blood: 9/11, Trauma, Selfhood, and Dexter;  3. ‘Too Much History, Too Much Remembering’: National Trauma and Individual Trauma in The Fall;  4. From Villains to Clowns: Adapting Serial Killers to Internet Memes;  Section II Death and Sex: Gendered Bodies in Serial Killer Narratives;  5. ‘He is a Murderer’: You, Fandom, and the Romanticized Male Killer;  6. The Killing Characters of Penny Dreadful;  7. The Subversive Powers of Killing Eve;  8. Better the Devil You Know: Nostalgia for the Captured Killer in Netflix’s Conversations with A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes;  Section III Unknown Killers: The Ambiguity of Post-9/11 Culture;  9. Dropping the Mask of Sanity: How Mindhunter Deconstructs the Profiling Procedural;  10. True Detective and the Post-Serial Killer Text;  11. Unthinkable Crimes: Representation, Knowledge, Mindhunter