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From Trauma to Entertainment: An Examination of Netflix’s Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Series

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From Trauma to Entertainment: An Examination of Netflix’s Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2023

Sorin M. S. Krammer*
Affiliation:
University of Surrey, UK

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Business Ethics

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