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Author:   Sarah E. Fanning ,  Claire O’Callaghan
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.657kg
ISBN:  

9783031178115

ISBN 10:   3031178114
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Screening Serial Murder: Adaptation, True Crime and Popular Culture; (Claire O’Callaghan and Sarah E Fanning).-Section I. Re-viewing Victims: Sex, Gender and Spectacle.- 2. Re-membering “The Five”: Violence, Victims and the Dead Female Body in Neo-Victorian Portrayals of the Whitechapel Murders (Claire O’Callaghan).- 3. ‘It is happening again’: Seriality, Twin Peaks and the Necroaesthetic (Chase Bucklew).- 4. The Diminished Figure of the Serial Killer in A Confession: (Louise Wattis).- 5. Serial Killer ‘monster’ woman (?): Aileen Wuornos on Trial and on Screen (Jo Aldridge).- Section II. Psycho Paths: Re-Creating the Scenes of Crim.- 5. Wolf Creek, Mick Taylor and Australian Horror (Penny Spirou).- 6.  A Strange Sort of Comfort: Domestic Architecture, Home-Bodies, and the Nostalgia of Suburban Containment in American Serial Killer Narratives (Brenda S Gardenour Walter).- 7. “Be Careful of Uncle Charlie: The Unsuspecting Serial Killer in Shadow of a Doubt” (Douglas MacLeod).- 8. See No Evil: Representations of the Moors Murder Case (Ian Cummins, Marian Foley & Martin King).- Section III. Monstrous Makeovers.- 9. The Sexualisation of Serial Killers in Twenty-First Century Film and the #MeToo Movement (Katrina Jan).- 10. The ‘Prison Poet’ on Screen: Jack Unterweger and the Art of Murder (Michael Fuchs).- 11. “Homicidal Hams” and “Psycho Clowns”: Serial Killer Humor in TV Sitcoms and Sketch Comedies (David Scott Diffrient).- 12. ‘Jazz Hands and Strangulation’: Serial Killers in Musicals (Louise Creechan).- Section IV. ‘Based on’: Truth, Authenticity and the Politics of Representation.- 13. Graze Culture and Serial Murder: Brushing up against ‘familiar monsters’ in the wake of 9/11 (Adam Lynes & Craig Kelly).- 14. ‘We’re here for something else’: Mindhunter, Serial Murder and the Reverential (Rachael Collins & Michele Byers).- 15. ‘What follows is based on actual case files’: Adapting the “Truth” in David Fincher’s Zodiac (Sarah E Fanning).  

Reviews

“It’s a comprehensive guide with insights into the industry that has grown up around serial killers … . These scholarly studies stress analysis over storytelling, but the familiar figures and well-known screen adaptations each author tackles will appeal to serious students of true crime.” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com, April, 2023)

It's a comprehensive guide with insights into the industry that has grown up around serial killers ... . These scholarly studies stress analysis over storytelling, but the familiar figures and well-known screen adaptations each author tackles will appeal to serious students of true crime. (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com, April, 2023)

Author Information

Sarah E. Fanning is Assistant Professor of Drama and Screen Studies and Director of Drama at Mount Allison University, Canada. Claire O’Callaghan is Lecturer in English in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK.

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