- Taschenbuch: 208 Seiten
- Verlag: Univ of Wisconsin Pr; Auflage: New edition (3. November 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0299156842
- ISBN-13: 978-0299156848
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,3 x 1,5 x 0,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 830.866 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"This is a book, not about what makes the serial killer tick, but about those of us--all of us--who have wound the clock and need to keep it running." These words by historian James Kincaid, in the foreword to Of Men and Monsters, introduce the idea, explored in depth by author Richard Tithecott, that we construct the phenomenon of serial killing. We also construct ourselves, he says, as audience to that spectacle. The killer himself responds to that audience, in a classic loop of the observer affecting the observed. It is a postmodern view, of course, to say that society, and its designated representatives such as FBI serial-killer experts, actually collude in the actions of a "monster" like Jeffrey Dahmer. Tithecott draws on the ideas of French philosopher Michel Foucault to explain and illustrate this view, using prose that is heavy going in places, but still quite readable.
Another important contribution to the cultural study of violence is Mark Seltzer's Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"In this post-modern reading, Jeffrey Dahmer is not a page in the history of true crime but a Monster who serves many rhetorical and cultural functions."—Philip Jenkins, Penn State University, author of Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide
"Brilliantly compelling. Tithecott challenges us to investigate our simultaneous distancing from and fascination with serial murder."—Maria Tatar, Harvard University, author of Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany
"Tithecott takes aim at the unsettling disparity of attention between murderer and murdered."—Chris Bull, Washington Post
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Typical of postmodern "theory," the writing is needlessly complex, which, also typical of postmodernists, hides the fact that the author is substantively ignorant of the topic and has no insight to offer. If you can sort through the jargon, this book basically argues that serial murders would not happen if we just ignored the killers, because they are part of a "discursive" loop, in which the killers are a sort of performer who kill to please their audience, which is the public. The author is oblivious to work done in psychology, criminology, sociology, and FBI investigations. Overall, the book is a flight from reality, which would be humorous if the topic were not so serious.
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I found this to be a good book, given the relatively difficult topic, very informative (another person's (Richard's in this case) is always usefully anyhow; however, this is the most hardest of reading material that I have ever come across. ADVICE: One Korean Gingseng and no alcohol before opening Richard's Book.
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Complete nonsense
22. September 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
Typical of postmodern "theory," the writing is needlessly complex, which, also typical of postmodernists, hides the fact that the author is substantively ignorant of the topic and has no insight to offer. If you can sort through the jargon, this book basically argues that serial murders would not happen if we just ignored the killers, because they are part of a "discursive" loop, in which the killers are a sort of performer who kill to please their audience, which is the public. The author is oblivious to work done in psychology, criminology, sociology, and FBI investigations. Overall, the book is a flight from reality, which would be humorous if the topic were not so serious.
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Reading Maps is Easier!
7. Mai 2000
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I found this to be a good book, given the relatively difficult topic, very informative (another person's (Richard's in this case) is always usefully anyhow; however, this is the most hardest of reading material that I have ever come across. ADVICE: One Korean Gingseng and no alcohol before opening Richard's Book.
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A lot of quotation marks, but overall an very thorough examination of this modern (patriarchal) phenomenon.
17. April 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
When i started this book, i thought I'd frequently find myself depressed by the subject at hand. Serial killers - depressing stuff, right? However, Tithecott deconstructs the mythology of the serial killer in such an utterly non-sensationalizing manner, it could almost be described as "refreshing" considering the way this (patriarchal) phenomenon is usually approached in popular-culture.
This book went far beyond what i imagined it would cover as well. It delved into subjects like the discourse surrounding law-enforcement (of clean/dirty binaries that posit police as agents of "public sanitation", who use non-psychiatric/'feminine' modes of addressing criminality), the significance of cannibalism within the public sphere, how the actions of serial killers' are naturalized (by being described as "without motive", "random", or even "unspeakable" - instead of perhaps racist, classicist, homophobic or misogynistic) and how this normalizing language does nothing to dismantle (or can even perpetuate) the destructive reality of individualistic masculine-power fantasies abundantly circulated in contemporary North American society... amongst many, many, many, many other things - too many to even try listing.
In short, this text covers A LOT in under a 200 pages and has a bibliography i will definitely look upon if i ever want to pursue these subjects further.
Perhaps this is part of the reason book reviewers of the past have found this text "needlessly complex". Admittedly, the first chapter in particular took some time to adjust to, because the author directly quotes A LOT of different sources. The frequent citing of names & quotation marks made staying focused on the ideas difficult at times. It would have been nice to see more liberties taken with paraphrasing, but perhaps that is an issue of copyright & less of writing style.
This book went far beyond what i imagined it would cover as well. It delved into subjects like the discourse surrounding law-enforcement (of clean/dirty binaries that posit police as agents of "public sanitation", who use non-psychiatric/'feminine' modes of addressing criminality), the significance of cannibalism within the public sphere, how the actions of serial killers' are naturalized (by being described as "without motive", "random", or even "unspeakable" - instead of perhaps racist, classicist, homophobic or misogynistic) and how this normalizing language does nothing to dismantle (or can even perpetuate) the destructive reality of individualistic masculine-power fantasies abundantly circulated in contemporary North American society... amongst many, many, many, many other things - too many to even try listing.
In short, this text covers A LOT in under a 200 pages and has a bibliography i will definitely look upon if i ever want to pursue these subjects further.
Perhaps this is part of the reason book reviewers of the past have found this text "needlessly complex". Admittedly, the first chapter in particular took some time to adjust to, because the author directly quotes A LOT of different sources. The frequent citing of names & quotation marks made staying focused on the ideas difficult at times. It would have been nice to see more liberties taken with paraphrasing, but perhaps that is an issue of copyright & less of writing style.
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