Special issue on Familiar Perpetrators: On the Intimacy of Evil in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. This issue was co-edited by Dragoș Manea, Dana Mihăilescu, Roxana Oltean and Mihaela Precup, whose work was supported by PCE grant 101/2021, “Familiar Perpetrators: On the Intimacy of Evil in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture,” offered by UEFISCDI.
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Evelyn Martha Mohr. Perpetration and Performance: Unlikely Villains and the Ghosting Effect in Fargo
William Magrino. From Disaffected Youth to Dangerous Adults: The Brooding Evil of the Familiar in Bret Easton Ellis’s Fiction
Opinion Article
William Wright. The Problem with Clowns: Political Perpetrators and Their Comedic Critics
Hatice Bay. “Instead of Pumping Iron, She was Pumping Bullets into her Husband”: The Portrayal of a Female Perpetrator in Nanette Burstein’s Killer Sally
[Inter]sections 25 (2022)
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Andrew Urie. An Intertextual Meditation on Edward W. Said’s Representations of the Intellectual: Roughly Thirty Years Later
Atalie Gerhard. The Monstrous Return of the Commodified Female: How Zombie Strippers (2008) and From Dusk Till Dawn (2014) Transgress Foundational American Cultural Values
Edward O. Teggin. An Anxious Undertaking: Colonial and Migrational Anxiety on the Nineteenth-Century Pioneer Trails
Ștefan Ionescu-Ambrosie. Pushing the Frontier to a New Mestizaje in Joss Whedon’s Firefly