American Psycho/sis - the Pure Products of America Go Crazy, Barry Keith Grant; The Grayness of Darkness - ""The Honeymoon Killers"" and its Impact on Psychokiller Cinema, Martin Rubin; Serial Killers, True Crime and Economic Performance Anxiety, Annalee Newitz; Jeffrey Dahmer and Media Cannibalism - the Lure and Failure of Sacrifice, Mark Pizzato; The Politics of Apocalypse in the Cinema of Serial Murder, Philip L. Simpson; Small Ceremonies - Ritual in ""Forrest Gump"", ""Natural Born Killers"", ""Seven"" and ""Follow Me Home"", Jane Caputi; Raging Bully -Postmodern Violence and Masculinity in ""Raging Bull"", Frank P. Tomasulo; I Married Rambo - Spectacle and Melodrama in the Hollywood Action Film, Mark Gallagher; Mutilating Mel - Martyrdom and Masculinity in ""Braveheart"", William Luhr; Aliens, Nomads, Mads Dogs and Road Warriors - Tabloid TV and the New Face of Criminal Violence, Elayne Rapping; Touching Scenes and Finishing Touches - Blindness in the Slasher Film, Susan Crutchfield; The Technology of Homicide - Constructions of Evidence and Truth in the American Murder Film, Ken Morrison; The Trauma is Out There -Historical Disjunctions and the Posttraumatic Narrative as Process in ""The X-Files"", Ilsa J. Bick; Alien/Nation - Invasions, Abductions and the Politics of Identity, Lianne McLarty; Category 3 - Sex and Violence in Postmodern Hong Kong, Julian Stringer; Knocked Around in New Zealand - Postcolonialism Goes to the Movies, Jane Smith; Woo's Most Dangerous Game - ""Hard Target"" and Neoconservative Violence, Tony Williams.