When the closet is the grave: A critical review of the Bruce McArthur case

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072110001
Author(s):  
Amar Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexualized Violence ◽  
Serial Killing ◽  
Lgbt Media

The article investigates the social impossibilities and constructed killability of brown queers. It critically focuses on the Bruce McArthur case, which involved the serial killing of predominantly brown queer men between 2010 and 2017 in Toronto. The author analyzes mainstream (LGBT) media representations of the white serial killer as “ordinary, yet aberrant,” the queer victims of color as sexually and socially fuckable, and the murderous racism of the Canadian state. The article centers the concept of (queer)necropolitics in conversation with discourses of antiimmigration, anti-Muslim racism and racialized sexualities to situate the generative force of racialized sexualized violence in the case.

scholarly journals Serial Killing as a Defence Mechanism: A Study of Thomas Harris’s “The Silence of the Lambs”

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Jerrin Aleyamma John
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Defence Mechanism ◽  
Multiple Viewpoints ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contextual Framework ◽  
Serial Killing ◽  
Detective Stories

The literary canon carries with it a huge array of possible writings exploring the various contours of fiction, the genre of Detective fiction is one such umbrella term. The effect of mystery and suspense and the surprise factors being hidden away in the pages, keeps the readers glued to detective fiction. This paper explores the plot line of one of the prominent detective stories, Thomas Harris’s ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ in search of certain existential questions regarding the named serial killer in the plot. The social evil of killing the lives of many for the purely pleasure aspect is viewed from multiple viewpoints and a new reading of the plot by placing it within relevant contextual framework is carried out. A traversal through the psychological, behavioural and social norms of the context is explores within the paper.

scholarly journals The social nature of serial murder: The intersection of gender and modernity

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-393
Author(s):  
Louise Wattis
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Murder ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Serial Killing

The literature on the aetiology of serial killing has benefited from analyses which offer an alternative perspective to individual/psychological approaches and consider serial murder as a sociological phenomenon. The main argument brought to bear within this body of work identifies the socio-economic and cultural conditions of modernity as enabling and legitimating the motivations and actions of the serial killer. This article interrogates this work from the standpoint of a gendered reading of modernity. Using the Yorkshire Ripper case, it emphasizes how in addition to the political economy, gender relations and masculinity shape the dynamics of serial murder and its representation.

G.K. Chesterton’s Works in Literary-Critical Review by K.I. Chukovsky

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Svetlana Morozova ◽  
Dmitrij Zhatkin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Disorder ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
The Social

The article is devoted to the perception of K.I. Chukovsky’s works by a famous English writer G.K. Chesterton. K.I. Chukovsky was one of the first to point out the ambiguity of the literary works by the English writer and called his journalistic activity more convincing. Describing G.K. Chesterton’s essays, K.I. Chukovsky believed that the writer is second to none in this genre. He praised G.K. Chesterton’s journalistic talent in responding to all the phenomena of contemporary social life. K.I. Chukovsky considered it obligatory for the Russian readers to familiarize themselves with the critical works of the English author. In the essay «Gilbert Chesterton. Manalive» (1924) K.I. Chukovsky substantiated why, for all the variety of genre forms that G.K. Chesterton used, Russian readers were familiar with only a few of his works. K.I. Chukovsky’s critical attitude to the novel «Manalive» is explained by his rejection of G.K. Chesterton’s utopian attitude to the social situation in England at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries. In G.K. Chesterton’s works K.I. Chukovsky saw a simulation of revolutionary pathos that did not solve pressing issues of social disorder.

American Serial Rape, 1940–2010

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren E. Wright ◽  
Thomas Vander Ven ◽  
Clara Fesmire
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
The Social ◽  
Serial Offenders ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Serial Rape

Little is known about the social correlates of serial rape or about trends in offending across time and space in the United States. Furthermore, the limited serial rape scholarship that exists was largely generalized from small, captive samples. The current study aims to amplify our understanding of serial rape by pursuing three fundamental objectives. First, guided by theory and research we propose a new, more precise, and comprehensive conceptualization of serial rape. Next, we draw from media representations of serial rape published in five major American newspapers from 1940 to 2010 to develop an offender social profile and to identify patterns in attack style. Our analysis of a broad and diverse sample of serial offenders described in media accounts ( N = 1,037) produced the following profile estimates—age: 27 years; race/ethnicity: African American, 46%; Caucasian, 29%; Latino, 19%; Asian, 5%. Most offenders were employed in unskilled or semiskilled occupations and the most common attack strategy was the surprise approach (47%). Finally, our data allow us to estimate and interpret historical trends as depicted in media accounts. Our analysis revealed low levels of serial rape in newspaper accounts during the 1940s to 1950s, followed by a steady increase (with periodic decreases) leading to a peak in 1991. This peak is followed by a steady and dramatic decline from 1992 to 2010.

Serial Killers

2014 ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Paul Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Crime Film ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Serial Killing ◽  
Jack The Ripper

This chapter assesses the British serial killer cinema. British cinema has been noticeably reticent about depicting its serial killers. Aside from Jack the Ripper, who has appeared in many films since the 1920s, British killers are not nearly as ubiquitous as their Hollywood counterparts and where they are depicted they are often allied more to realism than horror. Like all areas of the crime film, British serial-killer cinema is inextricably linked to Hollywood; however, it also strives to distance itself, drawing on quintessentially British histories, images, and texts. The chapter looks at three films where serial killing is the main thrust of the narrative: Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927), Richard Fleischer's 10 Rillington Place (1971), and John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986).

Test

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-142
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Personal Consequences ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

This final chapter explores yet further examples of how the principles of testing can be applied within the social sciences. As with the previous chapters, the authors begin by asking students to Google questions and then use the results Google provides to ask more sophisticated questions about the impact and personal consequences of the question. They begin by asking a question about how serial killer, Harold Shipman, was able to escape suspicion for as long as he did. They then take up a question about the common traits of serial killers, paying attention to the effects of the traits and how these traits may have personal connections to students. They conclude the chapter with a section about how we might make the decision to eat a third candy bar.

Examining Media Representations of Black Manhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-151
Author(s):  
Gordon Braxton
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Social Ecological Model ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Black Boys ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Black Manhood ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Difficult Conversations ◽  
The Social

Chapter 6 considers the “heroes” of Black boys and identifies some of the current and historical messages from entertainment media, with a particular focus on hip-hop and R&B music. The film industry is also discussed as a potential site where positive messaging can occur. The need to defend these heroes is examined, and discussion of their faults is presented as a window for having difficult conversations with boys. Informed by the social-ecological model, the chapter closes by asking about the appropriate standards to which celebrities should be held and challenging the reader to fill the moral voids vacated by media figures.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Ritual Activity

This section essentially covers the issues in assembling the book and the aims of the project. A critical review of recent literature related to ancient ontologies, neo-animism, and perspectivism is provided as general background to the volume, and each contribution is briefly presented. The specific questions contributors aim to address are based on ascertaining the extent to which modern archaeology and related disciplines can hope to reconstruct pre-Columbian ritual behaviors. How should we undertake the daunting task of interpreting these remains of ritual activity? How are we to accurately comprehend the social significance of certain artifacts both portable and immobile—beyond any practical use? How can we decode sacred images, and interrogate them so that they may inform us about the societies that produced and disseminated them?

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