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Making monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the social construction of the serial killer.
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Making monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the social construction of the serial killer./
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Tithecott, Richard Frank.
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294 p.
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-03, Section: A, page: 1330.
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Dissertation Abstracts International57-03A.
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Making monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the social construction of the serial killer.
Tithecott, Richard Frank.
Making monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the social construction of the serial killer.
- 294 p.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-03, Section: A, page: 1330.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 1995.
The social construction of the serial killer is discussed with particular reference to Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer's representation--texts include magazine and newspaper articles, transcripts of television talk-shows, books, movies, jokes and trading-cards--is contextualized with reference to serial killers of the last decade or so, and to the ways we have previously created the idea of monstrosity. Attention is paid particularly to Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels and their movie versions which perhaps more than any other texts inform our contemporary construction of the serial killer.Subjects--Topical Terms:
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