Mythologies of violence in postmodern media / edited by Christopher Sharrett.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-439) and index.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 / Lianna 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.