{"product_id":"stalking-bran-nicol-9781861892898","title":"Stalking","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt scares--and titillates--in such movies as \u003ci\u003eThe Hand That Rocks the Cradle \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBasic Instinct\u003c\/i\u003e. It violently ended the lives of legendary artists such as Selena and John Lennon, and thousands of people endure it daily in anonymity from ex-lovers and strangers. Stalking has been a fact of human society for a surprisingly long time, yet it is only in the last two decades that the term \"stalking\" came into wide use throughout mass culture. Bran Nicol traces here the history of stalking and chronicles how acts of extreme obsession have created a public fixation of their own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis unprecedented study draws on a wealth of sources--including forensic psychology, films, literature, news reports, and cultural theory--to examine stalking as a behavior and a social phenomenon. Moving from Samuel Richardson's \u003ci\u003eClarissa \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eFatal Attraction \u003c\/i\u003eand from Charles Dickens's \u003ci\u003eOur Mutual Friend \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eTaxi Driver \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOne Hour Photo\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicol skillfully probes how stalking has pervaded our civilizatoin for over two hundred years. He then turns his focus to the role that stalking plays in the context of our contemporary media-saturated culture, posing provocative questions about the state of modern society: Have interpersonal relations become increasingly intense or more perverse today? Are we dealing with something truly new, or is stalking simply the latest name for an age-old form of social interaction? \u003ci\u003eStalking \u003c\/i\u003ealso examines cases of deadly obsession with celebrities, such as Jodie Foster, and explores how such fixations are fueled by mass media and the Internet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wholly fascinating and groundbreaking investigation into one of the extreme consequences of our hyper-connected age, \u003ci\u003eStalking \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a thorough understanding of this disturbingly compelling abnormality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bran Nicol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1861892896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781861892898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 5.96w x 0.52d","brand":"Bran Nicol","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520611696895,"sku":"9781861892898","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f5dd312-daf7-48a9-88b0-10c0fbf5fd30.jpg?v=1762886112","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stalking-bran-nicol-9781861892898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}