Foreword: Zodiac, the American murderer, and the end of reason / Christopher Sharrett -- Introduction: The future of the "last serial killer movie" / Matthew Sorrento -- Framing the "mass" killer : horror and spatiality in Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968) / Matthew Sorrento -- Fear and exploiting in the age of aquarius : early representations of the Zodiac Killer in 1970s film and television / Christopher Weedman -- Hacked to pisces : an interview with Tom Hanson on the Zodiac Killer (1971) / Rod Lott -- Zodiac and the melding criminal minds of David Fincher / Jeremy Carr -- Subverting the investigator as hero : masculinity and failure in David Fincher's Zodiac / Theresa Rodewald -- Performing the Zodiac : piffle, paradox, and self-promotion / Daniel R. Frederick -- Allegories of obsession : David Fincher's Zodiac and Edgar G. Ulmer's The black cat (1934) / George Toles -- The Dantesque desires of David Fincher's Zodiac / Martin Kevorkian -- The Zodiac strikes a blue chord : evoking art-horror in music / Andrew M. Winters -- Algorithmic anxiety : data hegemony and mediated murder in David Fincher's Zodiac / Jake Rutkowski -- Gaming the Ripper Coast : mapping the radicalized acts of the Zodiac Killer / David Ryan -- The killers speak : the sound of violence in David Fincher's Zodiac and Mindhunter (2017-2019) / Deborah L. Jaramillo.
Summary:
"David Fincher's Zodiac, the first book-length study of the critically acclaimed 2007 release, offers various critical approaches to the film ranging from early influences, studies in genre and narrative, and media analysis including cinema history, game theory, musicology, and extensions in television studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities
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