The «Dexter Syndrome»: The Serial Killer in Popular Culture: 1 (Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics) - Image 1

£54.09

Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften The «Dexter Syndrome»: The Serial Killer in Popular Culture: 1 (Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics)

Name: The "Dexter Syndrome": The Serial Killer in Popular Culture: 1 (Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics)
Brand: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Price: 46.89 GBP
Availability: InStock

Murder

Price data last checked 38 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 53 days • 53 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 53 days • 7 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £47 (15 days, 28.3%)

Price range: £47 - £54

Price levels: 7 different prices over 53 days

Description

The serial killer has become an obsession ever since Jack the Ripper became a media sensation, embedding a new and horrifying type of murderer into our cultural consciousness – one who kills darkly and in the dark. All popular media – print, radio, television, and so on – have become absorbed by this new figure. This book traces its diffusion through all media and discusses what this reveals about modern society. Using the Dexter saga of novels and television programs as its basis, the book argues that a «Dexter Syndrome» has emerged whereby we no longer see a difference between real and fictional serial killers. The psychological and social reasons for this are explored by tracing pop culture texts themselves (movies, novels, etc.). Above all else, Dexter’s concept of a «moral code» forms a thematic thread that allows the author to argue that our contemporary moral nihilism has produced the demand for horror and horrific characters like serial killers, who have replaced medieval demons and monsters.

Product Specifications

Brand: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1433131560
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > True Crime > Murder
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 January 2016
Listed Since: 28 December 2015

Barcode

No barcode data available

Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften The «Dexter Syndrome»: The Serial Killer in Popular Culture: 1 (Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Murders and Acquisitions: Representations of the Serial Killer in Popular Culture

Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes

The Rise of True Crime: 20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture

Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide (Social Problems and Social Issues (Walter Paperback))

Cryptographic Crimes: The Use of Cryptography in Real and Fictional Crimes: 5 (Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics)

Psychopathy, Perversion, and Lust Homicide: Recognizing the Mental Disorders That Power Serial Killers (Forensic Psychology)

Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide (Social Institutions and Social Change)

The Sexual Murderer: Offender behaviour and implications for practice (Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour)

The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations: The Grisly Business Unit

Crime In Context: A Critical Criminology of Market Societies

Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon (Economics and Economic History; 10)

Creating Cultural Monsters: Serial Murder in America

Jeff Lindsay Novel Dexter Series Collection 8 Books Set Dexter Is Dead, Final Cut, Double Dexter, Dexter is Delicious, Dexter by Design, Dexter in the dark, Dearly devoted Dexter, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

CRC Press Serial Violence - Modus Operandi and Signature Analysis

The Subject of Murder – Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer

The Culture of Crime

Routledge Murder: Social and Historical Crime and Society Book

Routledge - Police and Profiling in the United States

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture: 3-volume set

The Culture of Crime by Routledge - Media and Communication Study

The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations: The Grisly Business Unit

Justice on Demand: True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offender Perspectives

The Psychology of Lust Murder: Paraphilia, Sexual Killing, and Serial Homicide