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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1: Representing Atrocity |
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The Fantastic |
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Chapter 2: The Real Petiot |
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The Trial |
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Chapter 3: Docteur Petiot: The Film |
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Disruption of Social Orders |
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The Reality Effect |
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Representing Vichy France |
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The Filmic Narrative |
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Expressionism in Docteur Petiot |
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Vision of Evil |
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Sounds of the Enemy |
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Chapter 4: Historical Allusion in Delicatessen |
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The Binary Structure |
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Cause and Effect |
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The Soundtrack |
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Erasure of Time and Space |
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The Carnivalesque |
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Chapter 5: Daily Routine |
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The Absent Soul |
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Défaite de la Raison |