Eichmann before Jerusalem: the unexamined life of a mass murderer

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (08) ◽  
pp. 52-4434-52-4434
Keyword(s):  
Mass Murderer

Populist Publics

2019 ◽  
pp. 116-142
Author(s):  
Nicole Curato
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Disaster Survivors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mass Murderer

In May 2016, the Philippines elected a self-confessed mass murderer as president of one of Asia’s oldest democracies. There are many interpretations for Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power. This chapter offers a distinct perspective from disaster-affected communities who actively campaigned for Duterte. It argues that the emergence of ‘populist publics’ cannot be reduced to a simple case of a demagogue manipulating the sentiments of desperate citizens. Instead, the chapter argues that the relationship between Duterte and disaster survivors is negotiated and contingent, conditional and not fanatical, morally complex and not based on hasty judgment. The chapter argues that populists must also be understood not only in terms of what they say but also how they engage in affective forms of attunement, which allows them to effectively respond to hidden injuries of communities of misery.

A Psychiatric Study of a Violent Mass Murderer

1972 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 173720371 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. S. Evseeff ◽  
E. M. Wisniewski
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Study ◽  
Mass Murderer

Hannibal’s Precursors

2013 ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Barry Forshaw
Keyword(s):  
Human Skin ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Slasher Film ◽  
Thomas Harris ◽  
Mass Murderer

This chapter discusses the other serial killers in the cinema before Hannibal Lecter. In 1959, the writer Robert Bloch was inspired by the gruesome case of the Wisconsin mass murderer Ed Gein, with his keepsakes of bones and human skin. He transmuted elements of the Gein case into the phenomenally successful Psycho (published 1959), reconfiguring the real-life Gein as the chubby, unprepossessing mother's boy Norman Bates, who dispatches a variety of victims in gruesome fashion. Subsequently, Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of the novel (1960) laid down the parameters for a variety of genres: the serial killer movie, the slasher film, and the modern big-budget horror film which utilises above-the-title stars rather than the journeyman actors who had populated such fare previously. But above all else, Hitchcock and his talented screenwriter Joseph Stefano created a template for the intelligent, richly developed, and charismatic fictional serial killer in their version of Norman Bates. Hitchcock's film was to influence a generation of film-makers and writers; among them Thomas Harris.

Profiling the Terrorist as a Mass Murderer (Extract)

2012 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Caroline Joan S. Picart ◽  
Cecil E. Greek
Keyword(s):  
Mass Murderer

Mass murderer was a humble microbe

2012 ◽  
Vol 216 (2895) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Sara Reardon
Keyword(s):  
Mass Murderer

Mediterranean Troughs, 600–900

The Great Sea ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Abulafia
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
Aegean Islands ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Fundamental Unity ◽  
Mass Murderer

By the sixth century, the unity of the Mediterranean had been shattered; it was no longer mare nostrum, either politically or commercially. There have been attempts to show that the fundamental unity of the Mediterranean as a trading space, at least, survived until the Islamic conquests of the seventh century (culminating in the invasion of Spain in 711), or even until the Frankish empire of the incestuous mass-murderer Charlemagne acquired control of Italy and Catalonia. There have also been attempts to show that recovery began much earlier than past generations of historians had assumed, and was well under way in the tenth or even the ninth century. It would be hard to dispute this in the case of the Byzantine East, which had already shown some resilience, or in the case of the Islamic lands that by then stretched from Syria and Egypt to Spain and Portugal, but the West is more of a puzzle. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that some historians observe decline at the same moments as others detect expansion. To this one can sensibly answer that there was enormous regional variation; but the question remains when and whether the Mediterranean lost, and then recovered, its unity. Just as in antiquity the integration of the Mediterranean into a single trading area, and subsequently into a single political area, had taken many centuries, from the Dark Age of the tenth century BC to the emergence of the Roman Empire, so in the era of the ‘Third Mediterranean’ the process of integration was painfully slow. Full political integration was never again achieved, despite the best efforts of invading Arabs and, much later, Turks. The loss by Byzantium of so many of its mainland possessions to the Slavs and other foes did leave the empire with several remarkable assets. Sicily, parts of southern Italy, Cyprus and the Aegean islands remained under Byzantine rule, and the empire drew wealth from gold and silver mines in several of these lands. Even Sardinia and Majorca were under Byzantine suzerainty, but it is unclear whether a functioning network of communication across the Mediterranean still existed.

A Different Perspective on the UCSB Mass Murderer

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ellen O'Toole
Keyword(s):  
Mass Murderer
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