Serial Killers and Serial Spectators -

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Résumé :
Serial murder is a global entertainment industry where the serial killer emerges as one of the most significant cultural figures of our time. No longer an exclusively Anglo-American phenomenon, narratives of serial killing are widespread in India, China, Japan, and other cultures. This book asks why this is the case, and how serial violence has been aestheticized in different contexts. It raises important questions regarding the ethics of spectatorship, complicity, and resistance. Unique in its transnational reach, it covers both novels and visual media, both West and East, both perpetrators and witnesses....

Biographie:
Anhiti Patnaik, Ph.D. Cultural Studies, Trent University (2018) teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in India. Her research areas include Victorian and World Literature, Gender Studies, and Cultural Criminology. She has published articles in Bronte Studies, Neo-Victorian Studies, Journal of World Literature, and Journal of International Women's Studies.

Elana Gomel is Professor Emerita at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Among her many books are Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (OSU Press, 2003) and Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014) She is the editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy (2023). She is also an award-winning fiction writer....

Sommaire:
Serial murder is a global entertainment industry where the serial killer emerges as one of the most significant cultural figures of our time. No longer an exclusively Anglo-American phenomenon, narratives of serial killing are widespread in India, China, Japan, and other cultures. This book asks why this is the case, and how serial violence has been aestheticized in different contexts. It raises important questions regarding the ethics of spectatorship, complicity, and resistance. Unique in its transnational reach, it covers both novels and visual media, both West and East, both perpetrators and witnesses....