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This chapter offers an analysis of John McNaughton’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), a precise and exemplary piece of blank cinema. It demonstrates the blank movement’s use of the serial killer figure as an especially powerful tool for social and political criticism. It is a cinematic work of phenomenological interrogation of a serial murderer.
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Donnelly, A.M. (2018). Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer . In: Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76819-9_8
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