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Book SynopsisSerial killers are popular-culture icons, selling books, movies and podcasts in every country in the world. This innovative and timely book uses methods in Media and Cultural Studies to analyse why global audiences are mesmerised by representations of serial killing. Unique in its transnational case studies, it addresses serial murder through a new perspective of the “serial spectator.”
Trade Review"Brill's dynamic peer-reviewed series Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature has since the mid-1990s been publishing monographs and edited collections on a range of subfields within the capacious field of comparative literature. The nearly 100 scholarly monographs published as part of Textxet engage rigorously with theories of literature, world literature, and literature and thought from around the globe, frequently from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. Soon to be fully digitized and accessible, Textxet has contributed significantly to the study of comparative literature, broadly conceived, in Europe and North America, and to literature studies more broadly, particularly in the discipline's many emerging subfields. Publishing the work of both established scholars and recent Ph.D.'s, Textxet gives scholars of all generations a platform for sharing their best work, and inspiring vigorous scholarly conversations" --Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA, author of Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care(2020)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: The Spectacle of Serial Violence in Global Literature and Media Part 1 Seriality of Violence 1 Abattoir Elegantiarum: Fashion Victimology and Hannibal’s Grand Designs Seth Wilder 2 Eat, Sleep, Read, Repeat: Excess and Enjoyment in Tomie Shweta Khilnani 3 Caught in Observation: Sublime tableaux morts in Female Serial Killer Narratives Natalia Igl Part 2 Moral Panics and Murderous Sublime 4 “The Horror in Whitechapel”: Sensational Journalism in the Jack the Ripper Murders Chen F. Michaeli 5 (Wo)Mens Rea: The Strange Case of Anne Perry and Murder of/for/by Women Anhiti Patnaik 6 A Poetics of Restlessness: The House That Jack Built and the Conventions of Serial Killer Fiction Luciano Cabral and Pedro Sasse Part 3 Transnational Evil of Banality 7 Murder and Meaning: The Ordinariness of Violence in Memories of Murder Reza Pourmikail 8 Lurid and Unlimited: Interpreting Bateman’s Banality in American Psycho Patrick Lawrence 9 The Digital Banal and Sublime Justice in Chinese Internet Literature Lina Qu Part 4 Spacetime of Violence 10 “Blood on the Snow”: Nordic Noir as a Fantasy Travelog Elana Gomel 11 “Le immagini ti guardano”: The Gallery City in the Giallo Genre of Italian Cinema Peter Vorissis 12 Santusthi and Jodidar through Serial Killing in Raman Raghav 2.0 Aratrika Das Conclusion: Healing through Horror in a Pandemic—The Editors in Dialogue Anhiti Patnaik and Elana Gomel
