What concepts about violence in the media have you gained during the time in this course
Before answering this unit\’s questions, you should read “Serial Killing in America After 9/11,” p. 244 in Natural Born Celebrities.
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1. In the final chapter from Natural Born Celebrities, Schmid argues that the serial killer genre and the terrorist genre of films coincided after 9/11. The co-mingling of the genres offered an opportunity for us to associate serial killers as a foreign threat to our nation. What ties do you see between this idea and the zombie trend in popular culture right now?
2. Overall, what concepts about violence in the media have you gained during the time in this course? What ideas will resonate with you after the course ends? While most people simply consume these films and TV series as mindless entertainment, what do you now think they are actually watching and internalizing if anything?
3. If you were teaching this course (Integrative & Interdisciplinary Learning Capstone: Serial Killers as Heroes in Pop Culture), what media would you have included in the syllabus? (Remember, the idea: How are we valorizing the serial killer or reversing the positions of killers within pop culture.) Thoughts?
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