Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer

Cultural Studies / American Studies "Tithecott takes aim at the unsettling disparity of attention between murderer and murdered."-Chris Bull, Washington Post

Of Men and Monsters examines the serial killer as an American cultural icon, one that both attracts and repels. Richard Tithecott suggests that the stories we tell and the images we conjure of serial killers-real and fictional-reveal as much about mainstream culture and its values, desires, and anxieties as they do about the killers themselves.

"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

Of Men and Monsters explores the serial killer as an American cultural icon. Looking at how Jeffrey Dahmer's story was told-on Geraldo Rivera's talk show, in People Weekly pictorials and CNN specials, in Washington Post editorials-and at other examples of serial killers, real and fictional, Jeffrey Tithecott argues that the serial killer we construct for ourselves is a figure both repulsive and attractive who fulfills dreams of masculinity, purity, and violence. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-10-2001; Consistently Brilliant; This is the finest book on the subject, addressing not what serial killers ARE but why we make them the way they are, how they function for us, and why we need them. The prose is witty, direct, and precise; the argument is more chilling...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-07-2000; Reading Maps is Easier!; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-22-1999; Complete nonsense; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-10-2001; Consistently Brilliant; This is the finest book on the subject, addressing not what serial killers ARE but why we make them the way they are, how they function for us, and why we need them. The prose is witty, direct, and precise; the argument is more chilling...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-07-2000; Reading Maps is Easier!; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-22-1999; Complete nonsense; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate