The rise of true crime: twentieth century murder and American popular culture

During the 1950s and 1960s True Detective magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. It was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and was more willing to make conjectures about the unknown thoughts and motivations of killers than others...

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1. Verfasser: Murley, Jean (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Westport, Connecticut Praeger 2008
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Zusammenfassung:During the 1950s and 1960s True Detective magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. It was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and was more willing to make conjectures about the unknown thoughts and motivations of killers than others had been before. This turned out to be the start of a revolution, and, after a century of escalating accounts, we have now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers.
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ISBN:9781573567725

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