RT Book
T1 True crime: observations on violence and modernity
A1 Seltzer, Mark 1951-
LA English
PP New York, NY u.a.
PB Routledge
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/525988130
AB 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.
AB 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.
CN HV6030
SN 0415977940
SN 0415977932
SN 9780415977944
SN 9780415977937
K1 Crime in popular culture
K1 Violence in popular culture
K1 Crime in mass media
K1 Violence in mass media
K1 Kriminalität : Massenmedien : Berichterstattung : Systemtheorie