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Intro
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Screening Serial Murder-Adaptation, True Crime, and Popular Culture
Serial Killing Onscreen
Notes
Part I Re-viewing Victims: Sex, Gender and Spectacle
2 Serial Killer "Monster" Woman (?): Aileen Wuornos on Trial and on Screen
Enter the "Monster"
Monsterising Women Who Kill
The Monster Antithetic
Rape Victim or 'Cold-Blooded and Calculated Killer'?-Theorising Aileen
Violent Women and Denial of Agency
Female Insanity, the First and Last Resort
Ethics of the Performative Documentary
Exit the "Monster"
Notes
3 The Diminished Figure of the Serial Killer in A Confession
Serial Murder, Spectacle, and Celebrity
Masculinity, Exceptionality, and Misogyny
A Confession
Victims and the Central Presence of the Killer
Notes
4 The House at the End of the World: Seriality, Death, and the Collapse of Meaning in Twin Peaks
Notes
Part II Psycho Paths: Re-creating the Scenes of Crime
5 Wolf Creek, Mick Taylor, and Australian Horror
Aussie Serial Killers: Who Is Mick Taylor?
Trespass: The Australian Horror Film Genre
Lure: What the Soundtrack Tells Us About Mick Taylor
Conclusion: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Notes
6 A Strange Sort of Comfort: Domestic Architecture, Home-Bodies, and the Nostalgia of Suburban Containment in American Serial Killer Narratives
Constructing Containment: Body, Home, and Suburb
Ted Bundy: Slippery Nature
Golden State Killer: Inside Outsider
John Wayne Gacy: Head of Household
Notes
7 Sweet Uncle Charlie: The Unsuspecting Killer in Shadow of a Doubt
Notes
8 See No Evil: The Moors Murders on Screen
The Moors Murders
Place
Bricolage
See No Evil
Staring into the Abyss
Conclusion
Notes
Part III Monstrous Makeovers
9 Innocent Until Proven Guilty? Two Cinematic Portrayals of Johann 'Jack' Unterweger
The Trial of the Century
Trapped in Purgatory
Free to Be Jack
Verdict: Not Guilty?
Notes
10 'Homicidal Hams' and 'Psycho Clowns': Serial Killer Humour in American Television Comedies
'As Common as Dirt': The Comedic Spread of Serial Killing During the 1980s and 1990s
Thinking the Unthinkable: Comedy TV's Serial Killers Since the 2000s
Conclusion: Whistling a Cheerful Tune While Walking Past a Graveyard
Notes
11 Jazz Hands and Strangulation: The Musical and the Serial Killer
Presenting the 'Suffolk Strangler' Verbatim
Everybody Is Very Very Nervous
Community Conservatism: London Road in Bloom
Notes
Part IV 'Based On': Truth, Authenticity and the Politics of Representation
12 One Anonymous UNSUB and the Five: Fact, Biofiction, and Mythography of Jack the Ripper and His Victims
Notes
13 'Graze Culture' and Serial Murder: Brushing Up Against 'Familiar Monsters' in the Wake of 9/11
Notes
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Screening Serial Murder-Adaptation, True Crime, and Popular Culture
Serial Killing Onscreen
Notes
Part I Re-viewing Victims: Sex, Gender and Spectacle
2 Serial Killer "Monster" Woman (?): Aileen Wuornos on Trial and on Screen
Enter the "Monster"
Monsterising Women Who Kill
The Monster Antithetic
Rape Victim or 'Cold-Blooded and Calculated Killer'?-Theorising Aileen
Violent Women and Denial of Agency
Female Insanity, the First and Last Resort
Ethics of the Performative Documentary
Exit the "Monster"
Notes
3 The Diminished Figure of the Serial Killer in A Confession
Serial Murder, Spectacle, and Celebrity
Masculinity, Exceptionality, and Misogyny
A Confession
Victims and the Central Presence of the Killer
Notes
4 The House at the End of the World: Seriality, Death, and the Collapse of Meaning in Twin Peaks
Notes
Part II Psycho Paths: Re-creating the Scenes of Crime
5 Wolf Creek, Mick Taylor, and Australian Horror
Aussie Serial Killers: Who Is Mick Taylor?
Trespass: The Australian Horror Film Genre
Lure: What the Soundtrack Tells Us About Mick Taylor
Conclusion: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Notes
6 A Strange Sort of Comfort: Domestic Architecture, Home-Bodies, and the Nostalgia of Suburban Containment in American Serial Killer Narratives
Constructing Containment: Body, Home, and Suburb
Ted Bundy: Slippery Nature
Golden State Killer: Inside Outsider
John Wayne Gacy: Head of Household
Notes
7 Sweet Uncle Charlie: The Unsuspecting Killer in Shadow of a Doubt
Notes
8 See No Evil: The Moors Murders on Screen
The Moors Murders
Place
Bricolage
See No Evil
Staring into the Abyss
Conclusion
Notes
Part III Monstrous Makeovers
9 Innocent Until Proven Guilty? Two Cinematic Portrayals of Johann 'Jack' Unterweger
The Trial of the Century
Trapped in Purgatory
Free to Be Jack
Verdict: Not Guilty?
Notes
10 'Homicidal Hams' and 'Psycho Clowns': Serial Killer Humour in American Television Comedies
'As Common as Dirt': The Comedic Spread of Serial Killing During the 1980s and 1990s
Thinking the Unthinkable: Comedy TV's Serial Killers Since the 2000s
Conclusion: Whistling a Cheerful Tune While Walking Past a Graveyard
Notes
11 Jazz Hands and Strangulation: The Musical and the Serial Killer
Presenting the 'Suffolk Strangler' Verbatim
Everybody Is Very Very Nervous
Community Conservatism: London Road in Bloom
Notes
Part IV 'Based On': Truth, Authenticity and the Politics of Representation
12 One Anonymous UNSUB and the Five: Fact, Biofiction, and Mythography of Jack the Ripper and His Victims
Notes
13 'Graze Culture' and Serial Murder: Brushing Up Against 'Familiar Monsters' in the Wake of 9/11
Notes