Killers and Constructs: The Application of Common Cultural Constructs of Serial Murder in Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991)

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Meijer, Jesse (2022)

Killers and Constructs: The Application of Common Cultural Constructs of Serial Murder in Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991)

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)

An analysis of the way serial murders are constructed in common society and culture, as applied in Silence of the Lambs and American Psycho. Silence comments on and applies these constructs directly, but ultimately reinforces them all the same. American Psycho deconstructs them by satirizing the culture they stem from.

Author: Meijer, Jesse

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors: Evert Jan van Leeuwen

ECTS Credits: 20

Language: en

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Killers and Constructs: The Application of Common Cultural Constructs of Serial Murder in Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991)