Abstract

This article attends to the role of duplicity in managing serial killer Ted Bundy’s uncanniness. Texts such as Joe Berlinger’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (2019) and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (2019) discuss acts of gendered violence that, though they differ in degree, are homologous to more quotidian performances of White masculinity. In so doing, they produce encounters with the depraved uncanny, or the affective intensities emanating from encounters with morally bankrupt or wicked acts that are formally homologous to quotidian performatives. Such texts also characterize Bundy as a duplicitous figure who masqueraded as a gentleman to conceal his true sadistic character. I argue that in fashioning “two Teds,” such texts absolve other performances of White masculinity and therefore mitigate the necessity of confronting the repressed yearnings for gendered possession to which Bundy gives expression.

摘要

本文关注口是心非在管理连环杀手泰德邦迪的诡异中所起的作用。诸如 Joe Berlinger 与杀手的对话：泰德邦迪录音带（2019 年）和极端邪恶、令人震惊的邪恶和邪恶（2019 年）等文本讨论了性别暴力行为，这些行为虽然程度不同，但与怀特更日常的表演是同源的阳刚之气。这样做时，他们产生了与堕落的不可思议的相遇，或者产生了与道德破产或邪恶的行为相遇而产生的情感强度，这些行为在形式上与日常的施展性是同源的。此类文本还将邦迪描述为一个两面派人物，他伪装成绅士以掩饰他真正的虐待狂性格。我认为在塑造“两个 Teds”时，