Format:
1 Online-Ressource (IX, 127 pages)
ISBN:
9781453916629
Series Statement:
Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics 1
Content:
The serial killer has become an obsession ever since Jack the Ripper became a media sensation, embedding a new and horrifying type of murderer into our cultural consciousness – one who kills darkly and in the dark. All popular media – print, radio, television, and so on – have become absorbed by this new figure. This book traces its diffusion through all media and discusses what this reveals about modern society. Using the Dexter saga of novels and television programs as its basis, the book argues that a «Dexter Syndrome» has emerged whereby we no longer see a difference between real and fictional serial killers. The psychological and social reasons for this are explored by tracing pop culture texts themselves (movies, novels, etc.). Above all else, Dexter’s concept of a «moral code» forms a thematic thread that allows the author to argue that our contemporary moral nihilism has produced the demand for horror and horrific characters like serial killers, who have replaced medieval demons and monsters
Content:
Contents: The Beginning: Jack the Ripper – The Killer Inside Me: Fantasizing the Serial Killer – The Lodger: Visualizing the Serial Killer – Criminal Minds: Explaining the Serial Killer – Copycat: Does Life Imitate Art?
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433131561
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Danesi, Marcel, 1946 - The "Dexter Syndrome" New York : Peter Lang, 2016 ISBN 9781433131561
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Fernsehserie
;
Mordserie
;
Mörder
;
Intensivtäter
;
Massenkultur
DOI:
10.3726/978-1-4539-1662-9
URL:
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Author information:
Danesi, Marcel 1946-
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