Lustmord Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany

"Tatar investigates the chilling motives behind representations that aestheticize violence, and that turn the mutilated female body into an object of fascination...What is at stake in these portrayals is more than the pathology of sexual criminals; gender, ethnicity and class are the real issues...Tate forces us to pay attention to the female victim, who continues to be represented, and at the same time overshadowed, by the attention paid to the artist and his work...Tatar's book is particularly relevant today, amid the heated debates over violence, even as the images become more brutal and sensational, and the camera more voyeuristic and merciless."Tatar, Maria M. is the author of 'Lustmord Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany', published 1997 under ISBN 9780691015903 and ISBN 0691015902.