Murders and Acquisitions

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

Alzena MacDonald is a Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, Western Australia. She teaches extensively in the area of Literary and Cultural Studies. Her research interests include representations of crime/horror, Indian nationalisms, and postcoloniality.

The popular fascination for the figure of the serial killer has long gone beyond being an intriguing matter only for media sociology; now it has entered our lifestyles, our dreams, our jokes - and we need every tool of cultural analysis at our disposal to understand it. Under the careful editorship of Alzena MacDonald, a top team of international scholars explores, in Murders and Acquisitions, the many, complex aspects of the serial killer 'craze' in popular culture. An essential guidebook. Professor Adrian Martin, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany