Serial Killing for Beginners; 1: The Pathological Public Sphere; 1: The Scene of the Crime; 2: Murder and Machine Culture; 3: Addiction, Violence, Sexual Difference; 2: The Mass In Person; 4: The Serial Killer as a Type of Person; 5: The Profile of the Serial Killer; 6: Pulp Fiction: The Popular Psychology of the Serial Killer; 7: Lifelikeness; 3: Lethal Spaces; 8: American Gothic; 9: Techno-Primitivism and Mass Violence; 4: Wound Culture; 10: Wound Culture
Mark Seltzer
"[A]mbitious. With great sophistication and virtuosity, Seltzer's
study of popular culture widens the circle of inquiry on the
subject of serial murder-theoretically, historically, and
rhetorically." -- Journal of AmericanCulture
"The book is unique because in three of its four sections it
addresses serial killing from a relatively broad perspective rather
than from a narrow case perspective. . . . Seltzer . . . makes no
attempt to develop a theoretical framework, but he has prepared a
thorough interesting descriptive manuscript." -- Choice
"Seltzer's indictment of the serial killer culture is scathing..."
-- Chicago Sun-Times, Chris Bull
"[Serial Killers] is thoroughly researched...And Mr. Seltzer's
command of the territory shines through." -- The Ottawa Citizen
"[an] illuminating new book." -- The Washington Post
"[Seltzer] offers a fresh view..." -- Library Journal Drawing with
equal dexerity on sources ranging from gay pulp novelist Dennis
Cooper to French philosopher Jacques Lacan, Seltzer sees the serial
killer as a sort of performance artist around whom we gather in an
unhealthy attempt to exorcise our own demons
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