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The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. Murders and Acquisitions explores the social and political implications of this cultural figure. The collection argues that the often blood-chilling representations of the serial killer and serial killing offered in TV series, films, novels and fan productions function to address contemporary concerns and preoccupations. Focusing on well-known popular culture texts, such as The Wire, Kiss the Girls, Monster, the Saw series, American Psycho, The Strangers, CSI and Dexter, this eclectic anthology engages with a broad spectrum of cultural theory and performs critical textual analysis to examine the sophisticated ways the serial killer is deployed to mediate and/or work through cultural anxieties and fears.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Murders and Acquisitions
• Author: Alzena MacDonald
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781441192929
• ISBN: 1441192921
• ID: 01343766
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. October 2013

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