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15 Serial Killers: Docufictions
Harold Jaffe
15 Serial Killers: Docufictions
Harold Jaffe
Taking as his text Georges Bataille?s insight that "only at the extremes is there freedom," critically acclaimed "guerrilla writer" Harold Jaffe documents Bataille?s aperçu with 15 bone-chilling illustrations. Manson, Starkweather, Speck, Son of Sam, the Night Stalker, Aileen Wuornos, the Unabomber, Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy, Kemper, Kevorkian and Kissinger are not merely present and accounted for, they are rendered into a "reality TV" that you?ve never seen before.
Widely praised as a virtuoso stylist, Jaffe employs a number of narrative stratagems, such as letters, monologues, interviews and "unsituated dialogues" to torque the flattened, cartoon-like serial killers into a potently unnerving third dimension.
As in False Positive, Straight Razor, Eros Anti-Eros and Sex for the Millennium, Jaffe?s "docufictions" are at the same time lucid, intricate, gruesome, infinitely sad, and hilarious. At the end we are left with a profoundly incisive commentary on America?s insatiable consumption of extremity, conveniently masked as moral condemnation.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 1, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780974503103 |
Publishers | Raw Dog Screaming Press |
Pages | 180 |
Dimensions | 140 × 200 × 10 mm · 244 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | Joel Lipman |
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