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| | BBC - collective - Serial Killers. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | The character, Jame Gumb, becomes not only a symbol of the unexplored, silent borderlands of our culture, but in some ways asks us to identity as an audience with some of his neuroses. |
 | | Hannibal Lecter is a serial killer character which holds these qualities in a more direct, charismatic way; a character that transfixes the audience with the image of a civilised, intelligent, and rational individual prone to seemingly random, utterly savage outbursts of irrational violence. |
 | | The first kind of killer is one that gives voice to the ambiguous, poorly defined conceptual areas of society that are shrouded in fears and anxieties of misunderstanding; the cross-dressing Jame Gumb character gives voice to a wide range of of issues relating to gender and sexuality, specifically the confusion and "hateful mocking" (Harris, p. |
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