Mark Seltzer

True Crime

Observations on Violence and Modernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The "murder leisure industry," its media, and its public: these are the subjects of this penetrating look at modern violence and the modern media and the ties that bind them in contemporary life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780415977944
• ISBN-10: 0415977940
• Artikelnr.: 22274747

Autorenporträt

Mark Seltzer is Evan Frankel Professor of English at UCLA. He is author of Bodies and Machines and Serial Killers:Death and Life in America's Wound Culture, both published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Murder/Media/Modernity The Media Apriori Synthetic Witnessing True and
False Crime Literacy Tests Crimes against Humanity The Known World The
Conventions of True Crime Sin City Normal Violence The National
Conversation Crime and Togetherness The Crime System Murder by Numbers
Half-Credences; or, The Public Mind True Lies True Romance Medium: Crime,
Risk, Counterfactual Life The Tremor of Forgery Precrime Second Thoughts;
or, Is It Now? Vicarious Crime Vicarious Life Media Doubling The Train, the
Dictaphone, the Merry-Go-Round, and the Movies Berlin 2000: The Image of an
Empty Place Woundscapes The Love Parade Democratic Social Space The Mimesis
of Publicness Postscript on the Violence-Media Complex (and Other Games)
Notes Index