Lethal Repetition
Serial Killing in European Cinema
(Sprache: Englisch)
For such a rare phenomenon, serial killing gains a lot of attention on film, often presented as an ever-growing danger, either symptomatic of the times we live in or an abiding feature of human existence. Richard Dyer explores the plethora of assumptions,...
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For such a rare phenomenon, serial killing gains a lot of attention on film, often presented as an ever-growing danger, either symptomatic of the times we live in or an abiding feature of human existence. Richard Dyer explores the plethora of assumptions, influences and ideas behind the many representations of serial killers in European cinema.
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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 toexplore what this marginal and uncommon crime is being made to mean on European screens.
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Preface.- ISSUES.- 1. The Phantom Menace.- 2. Is it a Serial Killer?.- 3. The Same Over and Over.- 4. Procuring Extraordinary Sensations.- 5. Motives Less Adequate.- 6. Action! Kill! Cut!.- CASES.- 7. Serial Killing in European Cinema.- 8. 'Jack the Ripper'.- 9. From Haarman to Hitler to Hannibal.- 10. Anything, and More, for the Family.- Bibliography.- Filmography.- Index.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Richard Dyer
- 2015, 256 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: British Film Institute
- ISBN-10: 1844573931
- ISBN-13: 9781844573936
Sprache:
Englisch
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