Idols of destruction: Celebrity and the serial kiIler

Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 295-310

  Schmid, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203715406     Document Type: Chapter

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