Deconstructing True Crime Literature

Author : Charlotte Barnes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031410459
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing True Crime Literature written by Charlotte Barnes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a work’s contents. In analysing seminal and lesser-known works, the areas of authenticity, accuracy, and author proximity are considered to form a framework on which an individual publication’s subgenre (re)categorisation can be assessed. The book considers the likes of Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Maggie Nelson, among other notable authors. Their works – those that fit into True Crime and those that defy categorisation within the genre as it exists – are reviewed, and their defining features critiqued. Topics such as narrative methodologies, figurative language, and utilisation of research are considered in support of this. These strands combine to a larger discussion regarding a deconstruction of True Crime, and the ways in which this will improve the social responsibility of the genre, and encourage a more conscientious consumerism of it.

Author : Gary Provost
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Write and Sell True Crime written by Gary Provost and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all starts with a newspaper article depiciting an unthinkable crime in a local community. From these headlines, a skilled writer can weave a full-length book - developing the characters, determining the motives, reporting on the judgment. That writer could be you. If you're fascinated by unusual crime stories; if you want to know how to determine which stories have book potential; if you want to learn how to ferret out the details, the motives, and the psychological dramas that make up these crimes, this book is for you. Gary Provost, author of several true crime books and numerous other titles walks you through the process of writing a true crime story.

Author : Mark Seltzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135867399
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Crime written by Mark Seltzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at least cult, of commiseration. If we cannot gather in the face of anything other than crime, violence, terror, trauma, and the wound, we can at least commiserate. That is, as novelist Chuck Palahniuk writes, we can at least "all [be] miserable together." The "murder leisure industry," its media, and its public: these modern styles of violence and intimacy, sociality and belief, are the subjects of True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. True Crime draws on and makes available to American readers—and tests out—work on systems theory and media theory (for instance, the transformative work of Niklas Luhmann on social systems and of Friedrich Kittler on the media apriori—work yet to make its impact on the American scene). True Crime is at once a study of a minor genre that is a scale model of modern society and a critical introduction to these forms of social and media history and theory. With examples, factual and fictional, of the scene of the crime ranging from Poe to CSI, from the true crime writing of the popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami to versions of "the violence-media complex" in the work of the American novelist Patricia Highsmith and the Argentinian author Juan José Saer, True Crime is a penetrating look at modern violence and the modern media and the ties that bind them in contemporary life.

Author : Andrew Klavan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Crime written by Andrew Klavan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lana A. Whited
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672245
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder, in Fact written by Lana A. Whited and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground. But Capote's "nonfiction novel" belongs to a long Naturalist tradition originating in the work of 19th-century French novelist Emile Zola. Naturalism offers a particular response to the increasing problem of violence in American life and its sociological implications. This book traces the origins of the fact-based homicide novel that emerged in the mainstream of American literature with works such as Frank Norris's McTeague and flourished in the twentieth century with works such as Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Richard Wright's Native Son. At their heart is a young man isolated from community who acts out in desperate circumstances against someone who reflects his isolation. A tension develops between how society views this killer and the way he is viewed by the novelist. The crimes central to these narratives epitomize the vast gap between those who can aspire to the so-called "American dream" and those with no realistic chance of achieving it.

Author : Michael Mewshaw
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751500813
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Crime written by Michael Mewshaw and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anita Biressi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403913595
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories written by Anita Biressi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-06-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Embracing a range of non-fiction accounts - true crime book and magazines, law and order television, popular journalism - it traces how they harness and explore current concerns about law and order, crime and punishment and personal vulnerability.

Author : Andrew Klavan
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0307791211
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Crime written by Andrew Klavan and published by Dell. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heat of the city, a man is out of time: speeding in a beat-up Ford Tempo, blasting easy-listening music. Reporter Steve Everett drinks too much, makes love to his boss's wife, and has just stumbled upon a shocking truth: a convicted killer is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit. In the cold confines of Death Row, Frank Beachum is also out of time. Ready to say good-bye to the wife and child he loves and hello to the God he still believes in, Beachum knows he did not kill a convenience store clerk six years ago. But in a few hours—if Steve Everett can't find the evidence to stop it—a needle is going to pierce Frank Beachum's skin. The killing machine is primed. The executioner is waiting. And so is the priest. Now the clock is ticking down and the race is on—between the reporter and his demons, between the system and its lethal flaws, between the last innocent man and society's ultimate crime. . . .

Author : Joseph L. Albini
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786465808
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Organized Crime written by Joseph L. Albini and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is organized crime? There have been many answers over the decades from scholars, governments, the media, pop culture and criminals themselves. These answers cumulatively created a "Mafia Mystique" that dominated discourse until after the Cold War, when transnational organized crime emerged as a pronounced, if nebulous, threat to global security and stability. The authors focus both on the American experience that dominated organized crime scholarship in the second half of the 20th century and on the more recent global scene. Case studies show that organized crime is best understood not as a series of famous gangsters and events but as a structure of everyday life formed by numerous political, social, economic and anthropological variables. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Neil Root
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910996225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Covering Darkness written by Neil Root and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: