Murders and Acquisitions analyses representations of the serial killer in popular culture.

Murders and Acquisitions analyses representations of the serial killer in popular culture.

Acknowledgments 1. Dissecting the "Dark Passenger": Reading Representations of the Serial Killer (Alzena MacDonald) 2. 'Made-up and Made-over': Faking the Serial Killer and the Serial Killer Fake (Sara L. Knox) 3. Serial Killing, Surveillance and the State (Alzena MacDonald) 4. Forced Entry: Serial killer Pornography as a Patriarchal Paradox (Robert Cettl) 5. Defining Deviance: The Rearticulation of Aileen Wuornos in Monster (Kumarini Silva and Danielle Rousseau) 6. "LOOK AT ME": Serial Killing, Whiteness, and (In)visibility in the Saw Series (Mark Bernard) 7. Shopping and Slaying, Fucking and Flaying: Serial Consumption in American Psycho (Christina Lee) 8. 'Slash Production': Objectifying the Serial 'Kiler' in Euro-Cult Cinema Fan Production (Oliver Carter) 9. Do Serial Killers Have Good Taste? (Louis Bayman) 10. Defacing the Acquisitions: A Museal-Analysis of Serial Killing Horror in Cinema (Janice Baker) 11. "There's Blood on the Walls": Serial Killing as Post-9/11 Terror in The Strangers (Philip L.Simpson) 12. Hunting Minds, Hunting Genes: From Profiling to Forensics in TV Serial Killer Narratives (Sofia Bull) 13. Homme Fatal: Illegitimate Pleasures in Darkly Dreaming Dexter (David Buchbinder and Ann Elizabeth McGuire) List of Contributors Index