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"...
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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.
Murder/Media/ModernityThe Media AprioriSynthetic WitnessingTrue and False CrimeLiteracy TestsCrimes against HumanityThe Known WorldThe Conventions of True CrimeSin CityNormal ViolenceThe National ConversationCrime and TogethernessThe Crime SystemMurder by NumbersHalf-Credences; or, The Public MindTrue LiesTrue RomanceMedium: Crime, Risk, Counterfactual LifeThe Tremor of ForgeryPrecrimeSecond Thoughts; or, "Is It Now?"Vicarious CrimeVicarious LifeMedia DoublingThe Train, the Dictaphone, the Merry-Go-Round, and the MoviesBerlin 2000: "The Image of an Empty Place"WoundscapesThe Love ParadeDemocratic Social SpaceThe Mimesis of PublicnessPostscript on the Violence-Media Complex (and Other Games)NotesIndex
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"...
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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.
Murder/Media/ModernityThe Media AprioriSynthetic WitnessingTrue and False CrimeLiteracy TestsCrimes against HumanityThe Known WorldThe Conventions of True CrimeSin CityNormal ViolenceThe National ConversationCrime and TogethernessThe Crime SystemMurder by NumbersHalf-Credences; or, The Public MindTrue LiesTrue RomanceMedium: Crime, Risk, Counterfactual LifeThe Tremor of ForgeryPrecrimeSecond Thoughts; or, "Is It Now?"Vicarious CrimeVicarious LifeMedia DoublingThe Train, the Dictaphone, the Merry-Go-Round, and the MoviesBerlin 2000: "The Image of an Empty Place"WoundscapesThe Love ParadeDemocratic Social SpaceThe Mimesis of PublicnessPostscript on the Violence-Media Complex (and Other Games)NotesIndex