Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, Nov 1, 1997 - Social Science - 208 pages

Of Men and Monsters examines the serial killer as an American cultural icon, one that both attracts and repels. Richard Tithecott suggests that the stories we tell and the images we conjure of serial killers—real and fictional—reveal as much about mainstream culture and its values, desires, and anxieties as they do about the killers themselves.

 

Contents

Introduction
3
Part I Policing the Serial Killer
13
Part II Dreaming the Serial Killer
89
Conclusion
168
Bibliography
181
Index
189
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About the author (1997)

Richard Tithecott is an administrative director at the University of Southern California. He is coeditor of the Signet Classic edition of My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London.

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