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David Fincher's Zodiac, the first book-length study of the critically acclaimed 2007 release, offers various critical approaches to the film ranging from early influences, studies in genre and narrative, and media analysis including cinema history, game theory, musicology, and extensions in television studies.
List of contents
Foreword: Zodiac, the American Murderer, and the End of Reason
By Christopher Sharrett
Introduction: The Future of the "Last Serial Killer Movie"
By Matthew Sorrento
SECTION ONE: BEFORE FINCHER
1: Framing the "Mass" Killer: Horror and Spatiality in Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968)
By Matthew Sorrento
2: Fear and Exploiting in the Age of Aquarius: Early Representations of the Zodiac Killer in 1970s Film and Television
By Christopher Weedman
3: Hacked to Pisces: An Interview with Tom Hanson on The Zodiac Killer (1971)
By Rod Lott
SECTION TWO: ZODIAC AND NARRATIVE
4: Zodiac and the Melding Criminal Minds of David Fincher
By Jeremy Carr
5: Subverting the Investigator as Hero: Masculinity and Failure in David Fincher's Zodiac
By Theresa Rodewald
6: Performing the Zodiac: Piffle, Paradox, and Self-Promotion
By Daniel R. Frederick
7: Allegories of Obsession: David Fincher's Zodiac and Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934)
By George Toles
SECTION THREE: ZODIAC AND MEDIA
8: The Dantesque Desires of David Fincher's Zodiac
By Martin Kevorkian
9: The Zodiac Strikes a Blue Chord: Evoking Art-Horror in Music
By Andrew M. Winters
10: Algorithmic Anxiety: Data Hegemony and Mediated Murder in David Fincher's Zodiac
By Jake Rutkowski
11: Gaming the Ripper Coast: Mapping the Radicalized Acts of the Zodiac Killer
By David Ryan
12: The Killers Speak: the Sound of Violence in David Fincher's Zodiac and Mindhunter (2017-2019)
By Deborah L. Jaramillo
About the author
Matthew Sorrento teaches film studies at Rutgers University-Camden.
David Ryan is academic director and faculty chair of the Master of Arts of Professional Communication program at the University of San Francisco.
