Of men and monsters : Jeffrey Dahmer and the construction of the serial killer / Richard Tithecott ; foreword by James R. Kincaid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tithecott, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Serial murderers.

Dahmer, Jeffrey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Policing the Serial Killer

1. Defining the Monster: Serial Killing and the FBI

2. Investigating the Serial Killer: The Seeking of Origins

The Serial Killer and the Idea of the Individual

Are You Raising a Jeffrey Dahmer?

3. Investigating the Serial Killer: Silencing the Unspeakable

4. Jeffrey Dahmer: Gay, White Cannibal

Part II. Dreaming the Serial Killer

5. The Horror in the Mirror: Average Joe and the Mechanical Monster

6. Confessing the Unspeakable

7. Supercops and Superkillers

8. The Monstrous Self Dreaming Up Reality

9. Sanity, Satan, and Sanitized Evil

10. Fantasies of Power

The Serial Killer and the Powers of Intelligence

The Serial Killer as Warrior Knight

A Man's Man: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Dream of Masculinity

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index.

ISBN:

9786612424014

9781282424012

1282424017

9780299156831

0299156834

OCLC:

44962520