Mythologies of violence in postmodern media

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Part I. Gore Culture. American psycho/sis : the pure products of America go crazy / Barry Keith Grant ; The grayness of darkness : The honeymoon killers and its impact on psychokiller cinema / Martin Rubin ; Serial killers, true crime, and economic performance anxiety / Annalee Newitz ; Jeffrey Dahmer and media cannibalism : the lure and failure of sacrifice / Mark Pizzato ; The politics of apocalypse in the cinema of serial murder / Philip L. Simpson -- Part II. Gender violence and male madness. Small ceremonies : ritual in Forrest Gump, Natural born killers, Seven, and Follow me home / Jane Caputi ; Raging bully : postmodern violence and masculinity in Raging bull / Frank P. Tomasulo ; I married Rambo : spectacle and melodrama in the Hollywood action film / Mark Gallagher ; Mutilating Mel : martyrdom and masculinity in Braveheart / William Luhr -- Part III. The image as policeman and the violence of vision. Aliens, nomads, mad dogs, and road warriors : tabloid TV and the new face of criminal violence / Elayne Rapping ; Touching scenes and finishing touches : blindness in the slasher film / Susan Crutchfield ; The technology of homicide : constructions of evidence and truth in the American murder film / Ken Morrison -- Part IV. Otherness, aliens, and trauma on the transnational scene. The trauma is out there : historical disjunctions and the posttraumatic narrative as process in The X-Files / Ilsa J. Bick ; Alien/nation : invasions, abductions, and the politics of identity / Lianne McLarty ; Category 3 : sex and violence in postmodern Hong Kong / Julian Stringer ; Knocked around in New Zealand : postcolonialism goes to the movies / Jane Smith ; Woo's most dangerous game : Hard target and neoconservative violence / Tony Williams -- Afterword : sacrificial violence and postmodern ideology / Christopher Sharrett

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