Samplers and Copycats: The Cultural Implications of the Postmodern Slasher in Contemporary American Film

Tietchen, Todd F.

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“…Horror also frequently depicts the lack of punishment for violence on the part of victims, heroes and villains, a matter of concern because of the expected observational learning of aggression from exposure to media portraits of rewarded violent models (Tamborini and Salomonson, 1996: 190–191). Lastly, horror–slasher films have incorporated copycat crimes and explicitly modeled the connection between media portrayals of crimes and the copying of those crimes (Tietchen, 2010). In these horror films, the criminals are directly portrayed as copycat offenders.…”

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Measuring copycat crime

Surette

2015

Crime, Media, Culture

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Copycat crimes have not been identified or measured in a coherent manner. To forward the study of copycat crime, a methodology was developed to empirically score crimes that are suspected of being copycat crimes on a scale from “unsubstantiated” to “substantiated”. The copycat crime measure utilized seven factors culled from the extant literature to differentiate and score a demonstration set of 51 candidate copycat crimes associated with commercial entertainment films. Two examples of analysis and research questions that can be subsequently pursued utilizing the scoring approach are provided. A means of measuring copycat crime will provide interested researchers the capability to examine research questions related to copycat crime trends, media content and copycat crime, social media and copycat crime, and different types of copycat crime.

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2015

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“…Tietchen (1998) drawing on Badley (1995ike an x-ray or scalpel, the camera has the power to dissect and fragment the body" thereby linking the surgeon's tools formally with the camera (1998, p. 98). Visually fragmenting a body is an exercise that implies a particular structure of power; the oft-noted example being the visual fragmentation of women's bodies as a method of appropriating them, not as subjects with their own desires, but as objects for men's pleasure.…”

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Reading the Body onHouse, M.D.: Medical Surveillance as a Model of the Social

Kahle

2012

The Communication Review

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This article focuses on the representation of the body in House, M.D. and suggests its usefulness as a metaphor for the view of the social body on which the series relies. The body in House, M.D. is the central occupation of the narrative, and it is around the body that the paired oppositions certainty/doubt and body/speech occur. In House, confessional speech is a regime of false knowledge while the body is privileged as the foundation of true knowledge-the province of the expert interpreter of the body. Through an exploration of these paired oppositions in the show's representation of medical practice, the author explores the series' model of the social in which the visual mediation of bodies is privileged as social hermeneutic and the intensification of mutual surveillance is the means of authentic interaction.Medical dramas have been a genre staple for primetime television since at least the days of Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey, and continuing with Medical Center, Trapper John MD, Chicago Hope, and ER. One commonality of the main characters in these programs is their patient-centered bedside manner: They, typically, show great concern for the physical and the psychological well-being of the patient. This is, however, decidedly not the case with the most popular TV MD of the new millennium, the self-medicating, rude and misanthropic-even arguably torturous-Dr. House.Through a thematic exploration of the FOX television program House, M.D., I will discuss the show's representation of the body, its relationship to truth, and the implications of these for our notions of the self and sociality. In this article, I argue that the logic of the show and the worldview of its protagonist merge in the series' presentation of medical care. The patient's Address correspondence to Shannon M. Kahle,

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Criminal behavior and the copycat effect: Literature review and theoretical framework for empirical investigation

Helfgott

2015

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Samplers and Copycats: The Cultural Implications of the Postmodern Slasher in Contemporary American Film

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Measuring copycat crime

Measuring copycat crime

Reading the Body onHouse, M.D.: Medical Surveillance as a Model of the Social

Criminal behavior and the copycat effect: Literature review and theoretical framework for empirical investigation

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