Single Girls and Serial Killers: Sex, Slaughter and the City

Fiona Sprott

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Single Girls and Serial Killers: Sex, Slaughter and the City

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Pages:: 173–190

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401200387_011

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How does a serial killer evolve into a romantic figure? Jack, our mysterious Ripper in Whitechapel, London 1888 set the stage for the evolution of serial murderers from heinous undesirable monsters into romanticised figures of enduring mystery, spanning the genres of crime, horror, and romantic suspense fictions. Taking the form of dramatic monologue, I ask the question: How do you meet Mr Right in an age of serial killers? Drawing upon the conflicting narratives of two popular dramatic television series, Law and Order Special Victims Unit and Sex and the City I explore how each show tells a different story of single women, sex, and the (same) city, juxtaposing fear and desire in stark contrast, and asking how such stories of sex, slaughter and city-space are embodied by women? Through this collection of fictional narratives I theorise the eroticisation of violence, and the pleasure in terror.

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Creating Destruction

Constructing Images of Violence and Genocide

Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 75

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401200387

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2011

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