Matthew Sorrento teaches film studies at Rutgers University-Camden.

David Ryan is academic director and faculty chair of the Master of Arts of Professional Communication program at the University of San Francisco.

Foreword: Zodiac, the American Murderer, and the End of Reason

By Christopher Sharrett

Introduction: The Future of the "Last Serial Killer Movie"

By Matthew Sorrento

SECTION ONE: BEFORE FINCHER

1: Framing the "Mass" Killer: Horror and Spatiality in Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968)

By Matthew Sorrento

2: Fear and Exploiting in the Age of Aquarius: Early Representations of the Zodiac Killer in 1970s Film and Television

By Christopher Weedman

3: Hacked to Pisces: An Interview with Tom Hanson on The Zodiac Killer (1971)

By Rod Lott

SECTION TWO: ZODIAC AND NARRATIVE

4: Zodiac and the Melding Criminal Minds of David Fincher

By Jeremy Carr

5: Subverting the Investigator as Hero: Masculinity and Failure in David Fincher's Zodiac

By Theresa Rodewald

6: Performing the Zodiac: Piffle, Paradox, and Self-Promotion

By Daniel R. Fredrick

7: Allegories of Obsession: David Fincher's Zodiac and Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934)

By George Toles

SECTION THREE: ZODIAC AND MEDIA

8: The Dantesque Desires of David Fincher's Zodiac

By Martin Kevorkian

9: The Zodiac Strikes a Blue Chord: Evoking Art-Horror in Music

By Andrew M. Winters

10: Algorithmic Anxiety: Data Hegemony and Mediated Murder in David Fincher's Zodiac

By Jake Rutkowski

11: Gaming the Ripper Coast: Mapping the Radicalized Acts of the Zodiac Killer

By David Ryan

12: The Killers Speak: the Sound of Violence in David Fincher's Zodiac and Mindhunter (2017-2019)

By Deborah L. Jaramillo