Abstract
‘Jack the Ripper’ entered public consciousness in the autumn of 1888 with the murder of five women in Whitechapel. Whoever was responsible was never caught. This has resulted in a murder mystery that literature and film has turned into a virtual industry of words and images. This book Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture does not seek to solve the mystery, there are already enough investigators, but to examine how Jack the Ripper, the women who were murdered, the detectives that investigated the murders and the murder site of Whitechapel have been depicted on screen, from their first appearance in Waxworks (Germany 1924: Leni) to The Wolfman (US 2010: Johnston).
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Paul Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Facts (London: Portico, 2009); Stewart P. Evans and Keith Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook (London: Robinson, 2009); Philip Sugden, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper (London: Robinson, 2002).
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L. Perry Curtis, Jack the Ripper and the London Press (Yale: Yale University Press, 2001), 59.
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Gary Coville and Patrick Lucanio, Jack the Ripper: His Life and Crimes in Popular Fiction (North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1999), 35.
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Clive Bloom, ‘Jack the Ripper: His Life in Pictures’, in Jack the Ripper and the East End, edited by Alex Werner (London: Chatto Windus, 2008), 252.
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Bloom, 252.
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Bloom, 248.
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Smith, C. (2016). Introduction. In: Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59999-5_1
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