Table of Contents

Serial Killing for Beginners; 1: The Pathological Public Sphere; 1: The Scene of the Crime; 2: Murder and Machine Culture; 3: Addiction, Violence, Sexual Difference; 2: The Mass In Person; 4: The Serial Killer as a Type of Person; 5: The Profile of the Serial Killer; 6: Pulp Fiction: The Popular Psychology of the Serial Killer; 7: Lifelikeness; 3: Lethal Spaces; 8: American Gothic; 9: Techno-Primitivism and Mass Violence; 4: Wound Culture; 10: Wound Culture

About the Author

Mark Seltzer

Reviews

"[A]mbitious. With great sophistication and virtuosity, Seltzer's study of popular culture widens the circle of inquiry on the subject of serial murder-theoretically, historically, and rhetorically." -- Journal of AmericanCulture
"The book is unique because in three of its four sections it addresses serial killing from a relatively broad perspective rather than from a narrow case perspective. . . . Seltzer . . . makes no attempt to develop a theoretical framework, but he has prepared a thorough interesting descriptive manuscript." -- Choice
"Seltzer's indictment of the serial killer culture is scathing..." -- Chicago Sun-Times, Chris Bull
"[Serial Killers] is thoroughly researched...And Mr. Seltzer's command of the territory shines through." -- The Ottawa Citizen
"[an] illuminating new book." -- The Washington Post
"[Seltzer] offers a fresh view..." -- Library Journal Drawing with equal dexerity on sources ranging from gay pulp novelist Dennis Cooper to French philosopher Jacques Lacan, Seltzer sees the serial killer as a sort of performance artist around whom we gather in an unhealthy attempt to exorcise our own demons