Returning to the Scene: Seriality and the Serial Killer

This article reads the perennial popularity of true crime products as symptomatic of repression and cultural trauma. Providing a close-reading of gender representation in the popular Netflix series Mindhunter, the author meditates on the postmodern characteristics of the series, which also signal th...

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Main Author:	Katie Jones
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Open Library of Humanities 2020-12-01
Series:	Open Screens
Subjects:	mindhunter representation seriality gender serial killers true crime trauma psychoanalysis
Online Access:	https://openscreensjournal.com/articles/27

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spelling	doaj-35852e8df8cc4bea939c2e91a2fd3ce52021-01-11T05:26:31ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesOpen Screens2516-28882020-12-013110.16995/os.2717Returning to the Scene: Seriality and the Serial KillerKatie Jones0Swansea UniversityThis article reads the perennial popularity of true crime products as symptomatic of repression and cultural trauma. Providing a close-reading of gender representation in the popular Netflix series Mindhunter, the author meditates on the postmodern characteristics of the series, which also signal the “forgotten” or repressed content to which the viewer returns. Utilising a feminist psychoanalytic approach to the popular Netflix series Mindhunter, the author considers representation in relation to seriality in order to speculate that seriality might formalise the traumatic return, and be used as material through which to unearth the repressed content inherent to the true crime genre, namely: the victim’s perspective.https://openscreensjournal.com/articles/27mindhunterrepresentationserialitygenderserial killerstrue crimetraumapsychoanalysis
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title	Returning to the Scene: Seriality and the Serial Killer
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description	This article reads the perennial popularity of true crime products as symptomatic of repression and cultural trauma. Providing a close-reading of gender representation in the popular Netflix series Mindhunter, the author meditates on the postmodern characteristics of the series, which also signal the “forgotten” or repressed content to which the viewer returns. Utilising a feminist psychoanalytic approach to the popular Netflix series Mindhunter, the author considers representation in relation to seriality in order to speculate that seriality might formalise the traumatic return, and be used as material through which to unearth the repressed content inherent to the true crime genre, namely: the victim’s perspective.
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Returning to the Scene: Seriality and the Serial Killer

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