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The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm (1990, Trade Paperback)
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780679731832
- Subject Area
- True Crime, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Journalist and the Murderer
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Subject
- Murder / General, Media Studies, Journalism
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 5.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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A seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm delves into the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject. Featuring the real-life lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision. In Malcolm's view, neither journalist nor subject can avoid the moral impasse that is built into the journalistic situation. When the text first appeared, as a two-part article in The New Yorker , its thesis seemed so radical and its irony so pitiless that journalists across the country reacted as if stung. Her book is a work of journalism as well as an essay on journalism: it at once exemplifies and dissects its subject. In her interviews with the leading and subsidiary characters in the MacDonald-McGinniss case -- the principals, their lawyers, the members of the jury, and the various persons who testified as expert witnesses at the trial -- Malcolm is always aware of herself as a player in a game that, as she points out, she cannot lose. The journalist-subject encounter has always troubled journalists, but never before has it been looked at so unflinchingly and so ruefully. Hovering over the narrative -- and always on the edge of the reader's consciousness -- is the MacDonald murder case itself, which imparts to the book an atmosphere of anxiety and uncanniness. The Journalist and the Murderer derives from and reflects many of the dominant intellectual concerns of our time, and it will have a particular appeal for those who cherish the odd, the off-center, and the unsolved.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679731830
ISBN-13
9780679731832
eBay Product ID (ePID)
982936
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Journalist and the Murderer
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Murder / General, Media Studies, Journalism
Publication Year
1990
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
True Crime, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
90-050156
Lc Classification Number
Pn4888.E8m35 1990b
Reviews
"It is not with regard to journalism but with regard to the making of works of art that Malcom's important book gathers its inspiration, its breathtaking rhetorical velocity, and its great truth." --David Rieff, Los Angeles Times, "It is not with regard to jounralism but with regard to the making of works of art that Malcom's important book gathers its inspiration, its breathtaking rhetorical velocity, and its great truth." --David Rieff, Los Angeles Times
Copyright Date
1990
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
174.90704
Dewey Edition
23
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