![]() ![]() The performativity theory is used to look at how the murders, with their outlandish and extreme brutality, become metonymy for creating one’s identity. ![]() In this book chapter the extremely bizarre nature of the presented crimes and their function are discussed. The characteristic feature of the series is the grotesqueness of the murders: female bodies pierced by antlers a throat cut open to shove a violin bridge through a human totem on the beach made of old and new pieces of victims – the list is long and appalling. It is loosely based on the novels by Thomas Harris and the accompanying films. The latest example is “Hannibal” (2013- ), a television series created by Bryan Fuller for NBC. Such theatricality of serial crime made it one of the favourite themes for popular culture. A specific positioning of the body and accompanying scenarios, settings, props or costumes all serve to boast, to leave a mark and to communicate the murderer’s twisted message to the onlookers. Performativity is at times a crucial component of serial murder. ![]()
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