RT Article
T1 Real-life criminals and crime fictions: adapting the serial killer as Gothic monster in TV drama
JF Critiquing violent crime in the media
SP 255
OP 278
A1 Cherry, Brigid 1957-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/194575852X
AB This chapter considers the fictionalised representations of real-life serial killers and spree murderers in the television dramas Mindhunter (2017–2019), Aquarius (2015–2016), I Am the Night (2019), and American Horror Story (2011–2019). It sets out an account of the ways in which non-fiction accounts of serial killers operate as antecedent texts in the fictional narrative. In remediating non-fiction accounts for the medium of TV crime and horror series, these dramas overtly draw on a range of intertexts to form a metatextual commentary on the real-life killers. The chapter discusses the Gothic genre as a key intertext in these series, both in relation to the crime genre and in the way the monstrosity of the serial killers is encoded. Issues around identity are discussed, particularly in relation to race, as they are embodied in the representation, remediation, and adaptation of real-life serial killers as monsters in the American Gothic tradition.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 277-278
SN 9783030837570
K1 Täter : Serienmörder : True Crime : Erzählung : Kriminalität : Gothic novel : Ungeheuer