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Index Aesthetics, 130, 149-50 Arendt, Hannah, 94 Automaton, 28, 95-99 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 42 Barthes, Roland, 84, 108, 172, 175 Battaille, Georges, 61, 143 Baudrillard, Jean, 154 Beauvoir, Simone de, 35, 85-86, 120, 134, 162 Bellow, Saul: Herzog, 169-70 Benveniste, Emile, 133n2 Berkowitz, David ("Son of Sam"), 4, 73, 110, 139 Bersani, Leo, 155, 174 Bible, The, 20, 39, 74, 137, 144. See also Christianity Black, Joel, 53, 111 Blanchot, Maurice, 173 Boston Strangler, See DeSalvo, Albert Boyle, Gerald (Dahmer's attorney), 25, 40, 67, 74, 96, 100, 106, 110, 141 Brady, Ian, 144, 148 Bundy, Ted, 50, 60, 62, 71, 73, 92, 95, 110, 114, 116, 139, 145, 146, 147 Butler, Judith, 57 Cameron, Deborah, 4, 55, 130, 153, 161, 171 Camp, 155 Cannibalism, x-xi, 65-67, 69, 77, 81, 8283 , 84-88 Capitalism, 43 Capote, Truman: In Cold Blood, 35, 45, 54, 59, 97, 104, 124, 146, 159, 173 Caputi, Jane, 113, 146 Carpenter, John, 8, 94 Celebrity-status, 86-87, 106-7, 120-21 Chesterton, G.K., 29 Childhood, 33, 41-42, 43, 44, 46-47, 62. See also Maternal influence; Paternal influence Christianity, 68, 82, 83, 102-3, 158, 179. See also Bible, The Christie, Agatha, 106 Cinema: "Academy Awards, The," 72; Alive, 66, 82, 83; Body Parts, 126; Bram Stoker's Dracula, 66; Bronson, Charles, 27; The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, 85; Dawn of the Dead, 86; Deliverance , 80; Dirty Harry, 112; Dressed to Kill, 25; The Exorcist, 20; Exorcist III, 9, 121; Falling Down, 114; Friday the 13th, 95, 178; Halloween, 8, 178; Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, 3, 101, 116; Hopkins , Anthony, 140, 147; Interview with the Vampire, 66; Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret Life, 106-7; Jennifer Eight, 3; Manhunter , 116, 147; Natural Born Killers, 3, 10; Norris, Chuck, 114; The Return of the Jedi, 121; The Return of Martin Guerre, 94; Segal, Steven, 114; Seven, 3, 145, 148; Sex, Lies and Videotape, 131; The Silence of the Lambs, 3, 6, 9, 16, 25, 30, 46-47, 56, 57, 58, 65, 66, 67, 72, 83, 84, 85, 88, 101-6, 110, 111, 114, 116, 118, 121, 127, 129, 131, 137, 140, 143, 147, 148, 149, 151, 152, 157, 159, 160 (See Harris, Thomas, for references to the novel); Sliver, 3; Sommersby, 94; Spade, Sam, 114; Stone, Oliver, 10; Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 172; Top Gun, 189 Index Cinema (continued) 114, 161; Wayne, John, 114. See also Carpenter , John; Horror City, the, 31, 42, 52, 68-69, 126, 147 Class, 48, 52-53, 54, 55, 147-48, 150-54, 172,173-74 Comic strips, 140 Conrad, Joseph: The Secret Agent, 31 Consumerism, 86-88 Dahmer, Joyce (mother), 40, 44 Dahmer, Lionel (father), xi, 44n2, 46 Dahmer, Shari (stepmother), 44, 100 Deleuze, Gilles, 27, 98, 175 Derrida, Jacques, 162 DeSalvo, Albert (liThe Boston Strangler "),73 Detective magazines, 25, 100, 115-16 Dietz, Park, 60, 65, 98, 115 Disease and crime, 4, 19, 22, 27, 30, 37, 42. See also Nature and crime Dodd, Westley Allan, 43, 60, 110, 139 Dollimore, Jonathan, 78, 79, 87, 94, 147, 155 Douglas, Mary, 18, 65, 143, 158-59 Dressler, Joachim, 75, 95 Eliot, T. 5., 120nl Evans, Donald Leroy, 101 Evil, the concept of, x, 7, 15, 19-22, 39, 51, 61, 136-42 passim, 170, 179 Falling, Christine, 56 Fascism, 59, 153-54, 157, 166, 175. See also Nazi Germany Federal Bureau of Investigation: x, 22, 28, 30, 32, 35, 41-42, 92, 101, 107, 109, 11~ 11~ 14~ 152-5~BehavoriaISc~ ence Unit, 16, 41, 111; definition of "serial killer," 25; and masculinity, 25-26, 46; National Center For the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC), 15-16, 22, 27, 30; personality profiling, 16, 22-23, 2829 ,36-37,163; William Webster (former FBI director), 32 Family, the 8, 16, 40-47 passim, 53, 55, 63, 164, 169, 172-73 Female serial killers, 55-56, 75: 125-26, 157-58, 178 Femininity, 57-58, 61, 154-67 passim, 174 Feminism, 87, 176-77 Fish, Albert (liThe Brooklyn Vampire"), 171 Foucault, Michel, 15, 19, 26, 32, 39, 41, 48, 84, 102, 111, 137, 139, 140, 142, 153, 170, 175, 176 Fox, James Alan, 4, 26-27, 28, 72-73, 78, 144 Fraze~ Elizabeth, 4, 55, 130, 153, 161, 171 Freud, Sigmund, 33, 38, 64, 80, 103, 128 Gacy, John Wayne, 50, 57, 71, 73, 95, 121 Gainesville killer. See Rollins, Dan Gein, Ed, 151, 157 Genius, the concept of, 148-49...

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