系列：文化和媒体研究中的Routledge研究
这本书探讨了在过去二十年里，连环杀手在流行电视中扮演的核心角色的显著增加。通过对呈现给观众的哲学和存在主义主题及其在当代美国文化景观中的地位的批判性分析，作者们问道：是什么让连环杀手在9·11事件后的热门电视节目中掀起了此类叙事的热潮？
回顾过去电视节目的连环格式，认为它特别适合展示连环杀手的行为，本章深入探讨了为什么电视被证明是当代流行文化中连环杀手叙事的沃土。一个国际作家团队提出了这样一个问题：连环杀手是什么让这些角色深刻地启发了人们对人类状况的描述，尽管这些状况异常可怕，但反映了人类心理的复杂因素？为什么连环杀手在智力上会吸引观众？这些人物是如何对我们产生如此深远的影响的？
这本书对当代现象有了新的认识，对于所有电视研究、电影研究、心理学、流行文化、媒体研究、哲学、体裁研究和恐怖研究的交叉点的人来说，它将是一本引人入胜的书。
Serial Killers in Contemporary Television: Familiar Monsters in Post-9/11 Culture
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical and existential themes presented to viewers and their place in the cultural landscape of contemporary America, the authors ask: What is it about serial killers that incited such a boom in these types of narratives in popular television post-9/11?
Looking past the serial format of television programming as uniquely suited for the presentation of the serial killer’s actions, the chapters delve into deeper reasons as to why TV has proven to be such a fertile ground for serial killer narratives in contemporary popular culture. An international team of authors question: What is it about serial killers that makes these characters deeply enlightening representations of the human condition that, although horrifically deviant, reflect complex elements of the human psyche? Why are serial killers intellectually fascinating to audiences? How do these characters so deeply affect us?
Shedding new light on a contemporary phenomenon, this book will be a fascinating read for all those at the intersection of television studies, film studies, psychology, popular culture, media studies, philosophy, genre studies, and horror studies.
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