Serial killing is an extremely rare phenomenon in reality that is
none-theless remarkably widespread in the cultural imagination.
Moreover, despite its rarity, it is also taken to be an expression of
characteristic aspects of humanity, masculinity, or our times. Richard
Dyer investigates this paradox, focusing on the notion at its heart:
seriality. He considers the aesthetics of the repetition of nastiness
and how this relates to the perceptions and anxieties that images of
serial killing highlight in the societies that produce them. Shifting
the focus away from the US, which is often seen as the home of the
serial killer, Lethal Repetition instead examines serial killing in
European culture and cinema – ranging from Scandinavia to the
Mediterranean and from Britain to Romania. Spanning all brows of
cinema – including avant-garde, art, mainstream and trash – Dyer
provides case studies on Jack the Ripper, the equation of Nazism with
serial killing, and the Italian giallo film to explore what this
marginal and uncommon crime is being made to mean on European screens.
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ISBN
9781844579266
Publisert
2015
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Vendor
British Film Institute
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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