At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture Edward Ingebretsen Student Edition

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At Stake Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in
Public Culture Edward IngebretsenStudent Edition

• Prepared by
• Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart
• Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
• Courtesy Asst. Professor of Law
• Florida State University

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Chapter III

• Redressing Andrew Cunanans Killing Queerness

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Guide Question

• What motifs of fear are associated with Cunanans
  image as a monster?

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Guide Question

• According to Ingebretsen, what role does scandal
  play in the maintainance of boundaries of
  normality?

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Guide Question

• To what does Ingebretsen attribute the iconic
  image of homosexual as homicidal?

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Guide Question

• What evidence does Ingebretsen use to show how
  the media problematized Cunanans masculinity?

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Guide Question

• According to Ingebretsen. Was Cunanans story
  more successful as a homosexual or as a killer?
  Justify this carefully.

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Guide Question

• What stereotypes of homosexuality abound in the
  lurid accounts of Cunanans life?

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Discussion Question

• Is there any part of Ingebretsens text that
  seems to lack justification?

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Guide Question

• In what ways was Cunanans body rendered a
  pornographic object?

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Guide Question

• How does Ingebretsen argue for the following
  position
• While the Cunanan story failed as a criminal
  narrative, it succeeded as a Gothic (p. 82).

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Guide Question

• What did the police say regarding Cunanans
  motivations for killing?

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Guide Question

• What contradictions are paramount in the Cunanan
  monster story?

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Guide Question

• How are scandal and fear related, and what
  functions do they serve?