True crime: observations on violence and modernity

Using crime as his canvas, this work offers an analysis of how cultural fantasies, fears, and desires have blurred the distinction between fiction and real event, from Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories up to Patricia Highsmith's ambiguous "Ripley" and the rash of reality TV sho...

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Autor principal: Seltzer, Mark (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY [u.a.] Routledge 2007
En:Año: 2007
Acceso en línea: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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Palabras clave:
Crime in mass media
Crime in popular culture
Kriminalität > Massenmedien > Berichterstattung > Systemtheorie
Violence in mass media
Violence in popular culture
Publicación relacionada:Erscheint auch als: 1827625120
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Sumario:Using crime as his canvas, this work offers an analysis of how cultural fantasies, fears, and desires have blurred the distinction between fiction and real event, from Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories up to Patricia Highsmith's ambiguous "Ripley" and the rash of reality TV shows.
In his widely read "Serial Killers", American studies scholar Mark Seltzer analyzed the American obsession with violent accident--vehicular homicide, serial murders, and other spectacularly awful events. "True Crime" carries the argument of "Serial Killers" into a broader arena. Browse a bookstore, writes Mark Seltzer, and you will find a healthy shelf labeled "Crime." Besides it may be a smaller, seedier shelf labeled "True Crime." The first is popular crime fiction, the second crime fact. Fictional crime has taken over, and the culture. Using crime as his canvas, Mark Seltzer offers a dazzling analysis of how our cultural fantasies, fears, and desires have blurred the distinction between fiction and real event. From Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories up to Patricia Highsmith's ambiguous Ripley and the rash of reality TV shows.
Descripción Física:VIII, 185 S. Ill.
ISBN:0415977940
0415977932
9780415977944
9780415977937