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David Schmid. Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture

David Schmid. Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 327 pp. $29.00. Since the...
English Studies in Canada, 06/01/08 by Philip L. Simpson · More from publication
True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity

Seltzer, Mark. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2007. $24.95 s. c. 185 pp. In his new book, Seltzer...
College Literature, 10/01/07 by Simpson, Philip L · More from publication
America's scariest home videos: serial killers and reality television

Introduction Introduction During the mid- to late-1980s, the American television industry became increasingly dominated by so-called "reality"...
Post Script, 01/01/03 by Philip L. Simpson · More from publication
Bigfoot

The North American equivalent of the legendary "Abominable Snowman" or Yeti of the Himalayas, "Bigfoot," whether he exists or not, has been a part...
St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture, 01/29/02 by Philip L. Simpson · More from publication
Independence Day

Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day was an epic film about an apocalyptic invasion of the Earth by extraterrestrials. The film opened in...
St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture, 01/29/02 by Philip L. Simpson · More from publication
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

With its elaborate, unprecedented use of special effects and novel portrayal of extraterrestrials, Close Encounters of the Third Kind opened to...
St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture, 01/29/02 by Philip L. Simpson · More from publication

Monica Lewinsky

Monica Lewinsky has earned a permanent, unlooked for, and unwelcome place in the political history of the United States. Her naÃ¯ve infatuation,...
St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture, 01/29/02 by Philip L. Simpson · More from publication
Kenneth Starr

Kenneth Starr will be remembered in the popular imagination as the soft-spoken but tenacious Republican special prosecutor locked in mortal combat...
St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture, 01/29/02 by Philip L. Simpson · More from publication