200 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at least cult, of commiseration. If we cannot gather in the face of anything other than crime, violence, terror, trauma, and the wound, we can at least commiserate. That is, as novelist Chuck Palahniuk... Read more
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
Biography
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.
"Seltzer's work is never anything less than fascinating ... he is capable of brilliant flashes of insight." --American Literature
"Seltzer's work is welcome in its close reading of true crime across contexts and chronologies." --College Literature
