--- Fabienne soldini <
fabsoldini@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> And [Bloch and Woolrich] created the caracter
of
"serial killer",
> which became very important in the crime novel
since
> the nineteen's. Norman Bates is the first one
most
> "popular", more famous serial killer (not
called
> like that in the fifteen's)in litt鲡ture and
in
> cinema .
Not so fast. The concept of serial killer goes back to
Victorian London and Jack the Ripper. It's safe to assume
that Jack wasn't the first. Sweeney Todd certainly comes to
mind. As for films, Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927) and Fritz
Lang's M (1931) were the earliest films about serial killers
and 1932's Doctor X was released in the US. Michael Powell's
Peeping Tom was also ahead of Psycho by a year. Stop me
before I go on. Researching this stuff lately. BTW, the term
serial killer was coined in Paris after the war by French
critics . . . no, it was in the 1970s by a profiler and a
shrink and they dispute which one of them came up with it.
They too argue about definitions
. . .
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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