Monsters Inc.: Serial killers and consumer culture
Crime, Media, Culture, Vol. 3, No. 3, 326-344 (2007)
http://cmc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/3/3/326?etoc
Brian Jarvis
"This article examines seminal examples of serial killer fiction and film. The main contention is that the commodification of violence in popular culture is structurally integrated with the violence of commodification itself. Starting with the rather obvious ways in which violent crime is marketed as a spectacle to be consumed, this article then attempts to uncover less transparent links between the normal desires which circulate within consumer society and monstrous violence. In `Monsters Inc.', the serial killer is unmasked as a gothic double of the serial consumer. "
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