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Product Description: Credited with superhuman intellect and abilities, the serial sex killer emerged in the 1980s as a dominant figure in American popular culture. In a decade marked by conservative politics and fundamental Protestantism, the serial killer was accused of attacking the traditional values underpinning American society and was used to manipulate public fear for political gain...read more
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9781900486538 | Headpress, January 3, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Credited with superhuman intellect and abilities, the serial sex killer emerged in the 1980s as a dominant figure in American popular culture.
9781900486293 | Headpress, September 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Credited with superhuman intellect and abilities, the "serial" sex killer emerged in the 1980s as a dominant figure in American popular culture.
A historical account of how serial killers have become famous in American culture looks at the consequences of their fame and examines how that fame has been used in both the popular media and law enforcement, profiling a variety of notorious murderers and their influence on popular culture, from 1893 killer H. H. Holmes to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
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9780226738673 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 21, 2005, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: A historical account of how serial killers have become famous in American culture looks at the consequences of their fame and examines how that fame has been used in both the popular media and law enforcement, profiling a variety of notorious murderers and their influence on popular culture, from 1893 killer H.
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9780226738697 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 2006, cover price $28.00
Product Description: Jack the Ripper: Media, culture, history collects together some of the best academic work on the most important and sensational murder case of the nineteenth century. Leading scholars in the fields of history, media and cultural studies debate the influence of the Whitechapel Murders on race, gender, the press, fiction, film and the city of London...read more
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9780719074936 | Manchester Univ Pr, January 30, 2008, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Jack the Ripper: Media, culture, history collects together some of the best academic work on the most important and sensational murder case of the nineteenth century.
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9780719074943 | Manchester Univ Pr, February 5, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Jack the Ripper: Media, culture, history collects together some of the best academic work on the most important and sensational murder case of the nineteenth century.
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