Killer Fandom Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer

Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field's successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Ju...

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Main Author: Fathallah, Judith (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: mediastudies.press 2023
Series:Media Manifold Series
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