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– Chapter 14 is an updated, modified version of the work that appeared as “Face Up to Croaking It,” Vertigo, no. 11 (August 2007).
– Chapter 15 is an updated, modified version of the work that appeared as “Wall Street: Identity and Meaningless Pleasure in American Psycho(s),” Film International 3, no. 17 (2005).
– Chapter 16 is an updated, modified version of the work that appeared as “Life after Death, or Death as Life? Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, Postmodernism and Ontology,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 3, no. 2 (April 2002).
– Segments of Chapter 17 appeared as “Becks and Posh and Baudrillard in America,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Special Issue: Remembering Baudrillard 4, no. 3 (October 2007).
– Some of Chapter 17 was also incorporated in “I Love to Hate You/All You Need Is Hate: Love as War in Modern Discourse and Contemporary Public Rhetoric,” Journal of Media and Culture 5, no. 6, November 2002.
Some of this work also appeared as conference papers, and I thank the organizers of the following:
– “Sexually Unchallenged: Disability and Sex in Cult Film and Literature,” which relates to Chapter 5, was presented at the Bradford Film Festival Crash 2 symposium, organized by the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television and Bradford University, March 2003.
– “Screening Familiar: Child Sexual Abuse in Film and Literature and Its ‘Uncanny’ Prevalence,” which relates to Chapter 5, was presented at the University of East London/Institute of Psychoanalysis/Tavistock Clinic/Portman NHS Trust Conference, Art and the Unconscious, July 2003.