Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories

AvAnita Biressi

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Crime Files
Antal sidor:238
Upplaga:1001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349410491

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ANITA BIRESSI is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the Department of Arts and Media, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Acknowledgements PART ONE: TRUE CRIME: ISSUES, HISTORIES, CONTEXTS Introduction 'True Stories Only' Histories of True Crime Discourses of Law and Order in Modern Britain PART TWO: TRUE CRIME: STORIES, BODIES, CRIMINALS Crime Magazine Stories: From American Idiom to an English Vernacular Period True Crime: History from Below? Daring to Know: Looking at the Body in the New True Crime Magazine Figure in a Landscape: The Dangerous Individual in Criminal Biography Bibliography Index