It's now been just about a week since the presentation, and I must say I think It went quite well. We all played out our parts with professionalism and confidence and the presentation as a whole proceeded smoothly from beginning to end.
Thinking back on all the reaserch on the Ripper legend, it's interesting to see just how much the story is engrained into modern popular culture. With all the refferences (both direct and subtle), to the myriad of books, films, songs, shows and comics that were either based on or simply refferenced Jack the Ripper. This in addition to what I have learned regarding the morbid fascination in the media with more modern serial kilers such as Ted Bundy and Derek Brown. What is it about these types of people that we find so fascinating?
Throughout my reaserch and the presentation, I commented heavilly on the 'modern beauty culture' that affected the interpretations of the victims in most fictional representations of the case. My conclusion was that it is a state of mind, a constant desire to see beauty over ugliness in our fiction. People rely on fiction to escape from the constraints of reality, creating a glimmer of our ideal world. If the representations of these murders have any focus on the victims, then they have to be shown as something that we percieve as beautiful. Jack's role as a villian is then to take away that beauty and turn it into something more horrible. In the end this is all just my speculation, but it woul be interesting to hear what other people think about this.
With all that said and done i'd like to thank Sue, Carol and Cam for being such a talented and professional group to work with, and for bearing with me when I needed that little extra time. We put our all into it and came out with out with something to truly be proud of.
Edward Bromage (0806096)
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