Of Men and Monsters
Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer
Will be published approx. on 30. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-299-15684-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
277 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-15684-8 (9780299156848)
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Persons
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.