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Author Schmid, David (David Frank)

Title Natural born celebrities : serial killers in American culture / David Schmid.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Central Library - Circulating Collection  HV6529 .S32 2005    Available
Description viii, 327 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-310) and index.
Contents Table of contents -- The Victorian killer as media star : Jack the Ripper and H.H. Holmes -- Defining the enemy within : the FBI and serial murder -- Natural born celebrities : serial killers and the Hollywood star system -- Out of this world : aliens, devils, and serial killers in television crime drama -- Next door monsters : the dialectic of normality and monstrosity in true-crime narratives -- The unbearable straightness of violence : queering serial murder in true crime.
Subject Serial murderers -- United States -- Public opinion.
Crime in popular culture -- United States.
Serial murders in mass media.
Fame.
ISBN 9780226738673
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