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- catalog abstract "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. Why, for example, does Hannibal Lecter, though clearly dangerous, seem brilliant, even alluring, while his dark counterpart in Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill, represents pure monstrosity? In a nation where murders occur every day, why do those we name "serial killers" seem so different, meriting a flood of public and media attention? Looking at how Jeffrey Dahmer's story was told - on the Geraldo talk show and CNN specials, in Washington Post editorials and People Weekly pictorials - Tithecott argues that the serial killer we construct for ourselves is a mythical figure in the contemporary world. Transcending boundaries between madness and sanity, civilization and savagery, the idea of the serial killer fulfills dreams of masculinity, purity, and violence.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b10436208.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index.".
- catalog description "Looking at how Jeffrey Dahmer's story was told - on the Geraldo talk show and CNN specials, in Washington Post editorials and People Weekly pictorials - Tithecott argues that the serial killer we construct for ourselves is a mythical figure in the contemporary world. Transcending boundaries between madness and sanity, civilization and savagery, the idea of the serial killer fulfills dreams of masculinity, purity, and violence.".
- catalog 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. Why, for example, does Hannibal Lecter, though clearly dangerous, seem brilliant, even alluring, while his dark counterpart in Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill, represents pure monstrosity? In a nation where murders occur every day, why do those we name "serial killers" seem so different, meriting a flood of public and media attention?".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Policing the serial killer. Defining the monster: serial killing and the FBI. Investigating the serial killer: the seeking of origins. The serial killer and the idea of the individual. "Are you raising a Jeffrey Dahmer?". Investigating the serial killer: silencing the unspeakable. Jeffrey Dahmer: gay, white cannibal -- pt. 2. Dreaming the serial killer. The horror in the mirror: average Joe and the mechanical monster. Confessing the unspeakable. Supercops and superkillers. The monstrous self: dreaming up reality. Sanity, Satan, and sanitized evil. Fantasies of power. The serial killer and the powers of intelligence. The serial killer and warrior knight. A man's man: Jeffrey Dahmer and the dream of masculinity.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 192 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Of men and monsters.".
- catalog identifier "029915680X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Of men and monsters.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison : University of Wisconsin Press,".
- catalog relation "Of men and monsters.".
- catalog subject "Dahmer, Jeffrey.".
- catalog subject "HV6515 .T57 1997".
- catalog subject "Serial murderers.".
- catalog subject "a364.15/23/092 B 21".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Policing the serial killer. Defining the monster: serial killing and the FBI. Investigating the serial killer: the seeking of origins. The serial killer and the idea of the individual. "Are you raising a Jeffrey Dahmer?". Investigating the serial killer: silencing the unspeakable. Jeffrey Dahmer: gay, white cannibal -- pt. 2. Dreaming the serial killer. The horror in the mirror: average Joe and the mechanical monster. Confessing the unspeakable. Supercops and superkillers. The monstrous self: dreaming up reality. Sanity, Satan, and sanitized evil. Fantasies of power. The serial killer and the powers of intelligence. The serial killer and warrior knight. A man's man: Jeffrey Dahmer and the dream of masculinity.".
- catalog title "Of men and monsters : Jeffrey Dahmer and the construction of the serial killer / Richard Tithecott ; foreword by James R. Kincaid.".
- catalog type "text".