The Dexter Syndrome The Serial Killer in Popular Culture 1st Edition Marcel 1454199512 9781454199519

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• ISBN-10: 1454199512 
• ISBN-13: 9781454199519 
• Author: Marcel Danesi

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.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. The Beginning: Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper
The Serial Killer
The Shadow Archetype
Pop Crime
The Dexter Syndrome
Chapter 2. The Killer Inside Me: Fantasizing the Serial Killer
Pop Fiction
Serial Killer Fiction
The Media
Fantasizing the Serial Killer
The Dark Passenger
Chapter 3. The Lodger: Visualizing the Serial Killer
Serial Killer Movies
Biopics
Visualizing the Serial Killer
The Simulacrum
The Lodger amongst Us
Chapter 4. Criminal Minds: Explaining the Serial Killer
Unmasking the Serial Killer: Criminal Minds
Tracking the Serial Killer: True Detective
The Serial Killer as Folk Hero: Dexter
Telling the Story: Identification Discovery
Explaining the Criminal Mind
Chapter 5. Copycat: Does Life Imitate Art?
Copycat Crime
Mythology
Moral Codes
Restoring Moral Order

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