Serial Killers and Serial Spectators
Cultures, Narratives, and Representations
Published on 7. February 2024
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-90-04-51909-1 (ISBN)
Description
Serial murder is a global entertainment industry where the serial killer emerges as one of the most significant cultural figures of our time. No longer an exclusively Anglo-American phenomenon, narratives of serial killing are widespread in India, China, Japan, and other cultures. This book asks why this is the case, and how serial violence has been aestheticized in different contexts. It raises important questions regarding the ethics of spectatorship, complicity, and resistance. Unique in its transnational reach, it covers both novels and visual media, both West and East, both perpetrators and witnesses.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51909-1 (9789004519091)
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Persons
Anhiti Patnaik, Ph.D. Cultural Studies, Trent University (2018) teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in India. Her research areas include Victorian and World Literature, Gender Studies, and Cultural Criminology. She has published articles in Bronte Studies, Neo-Victorian Studies, Journal of World Literature, and Journal of International Women's Studies.
Elana Gomel is Professor Emerita at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Among her many books are Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (OSU Press, 2003) and Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014) She is the editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy (2023). She is also an award-winning fiction writer.
Elana Gomel is Professor Emerita at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Among her many books are Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (OSU Press, 2003) and Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014) She is the editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy (2023). She is also an award-winning fiction writer.
Content
Notes 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
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