Serial Killing on Screen : Adaptation, True Crime and Popular Culture

This book explores the representation of real-life serial murders as adapted for the screen and popular culture. Bringing together a selection of essays from international scholars, Serial Killing on Screen: Adaptation, True Crime and Popular Culture examines the ways in which the screen has become...

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مؤلفون آخرون: Fanning, Sarah E. (مدير النشر), O'Callaghan, Claire (مدير النشر)
التنسيق: Livre numérique
اللغة:Anglais
منشور في: Cham : Springer International Publishing [20..].
Cham : Springer Nature
سلاسل:Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
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Accès sur la plateforme ISTEX
Accès Université d'Orléans
ملاحظة: Springer e-books droit et criminologie (Licence nationale)
Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
Edition sous un autre format:• Serial Killing on Screen, Texte imprimé, 9783031178115
• Serial Killing on Screen, Texte imprimé, 9783031178139
• Serial killing on screen, adaptation, true crime and popular culture, Sarah E. Fanning, Claire O' Callaghan, editors, 2023, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 1 volume (xxvi-382 pages), Palgrave studies in crime, media and culture, 978-3-031-17814-6
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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). .