1st Edition
Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives A Textual Analysis
1. Introduction: An Outline in Chalk
1.1 Securing the Scene
1.2The Background Check
2. The Exploratory Study: A Proper Search
2.1 Interrogating the Texts
2.2 Selection of True Crime Narratives: "The Usual Suspects"
2.3 Summation
3. The Findings: Two Sides to Every True Crime Story
3.1 The Prosecution: The Critic’s View
3.2 The Defense: True Crime as a Justice Mechanism
3.3 A Review of the Evidence: A Theory of True Crime
3.4 Summation
4. Conclusion and Discussion: TheVerdict
4.1 A Theory of True Crime
4.2 Crimen Veritas
4.3 The International Man Hunt is On
4.4 Accomplices after the Fact
4.5 NON-narrative True Crime Writing
4.6 Crime Porn
4.7 The Final Sentence
Biography
Ian Case Punnett is a professor of multimedia journalism who came back to graduate school after a successful decades-long career in commercial radio/television/print/digital media. Other books include A Black Night for the Blue Grass Belle (2016) and How to Pray When You’re Pissed at God (2013).
"With this book, Dr. Ian Punnett has staked out new and important territory in the study of true crime. This is essential reading for anybody interested in how and why true crime remains compelling to worldwide readers and audiences." -Jean Murley, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, USA
