Ok. Thank you for dating this applelation. In France, it's
really new (tewety years ago). Now the police is researching
serial killers (tueur en s鲩e), and, by a strange coﮣodence,
it founds! But there were a lot of serial killers before:
Gilles de Rais, the most famous, who was fighting with Jeanne
of Arc again the English, and raped, tortured, and murdered
about 150 little boys (we don't know exactly how many because
he was a Lord, and the children are poor children, so in that
histrical context, not really important... poor children life
didn't matter!), Landru of course (Charlie Chaplin made a
movie about him :"Monsieur Verdoux", doctor Petiot, but the
booth are not exactly serial killers, even they killed a lot
of people, because they killed for money.
Fabienne
William Ahearn <
williamahearn@yahoo.com> a 飲it :
--- 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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