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True Crime : Observations on Violence and Modernity by Mark Seltzer (2006, Perfect)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100415977940
ISBN-139780415977944
eBay Product ID (ePID)52873293
Product Key Features
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTrue Crime : Observations on Violence and Modernity
Publication Year2006
SubjectMedia Studies, Popular Culture, Research
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science
AuthorMark Seltzer
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2007-272466
Reviews"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
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal364
Table Of ContentMurder/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
SynopsisTrue 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 writes, we can at least "all be] miserable together." The "murder leisure industry," its media, and its public: these modern styles of violence and intimacy, sociality and belief, are the subjects of True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. True Crime draws on and makes available to American readers--and tests out--work on systems theory and media theory (for instance, the transformative work of Niklas Luhmann on social systems and of Friedrich Kittler on the media apriori--work yet to make its impact on the American scene). True Crime is at once a study of a minor genre that is a scale model of modern society and a critical introduction to these forms of social and media history and theory. With examples, factual and fictional, of the scene of the crime ranging from Poe to CSI, from the true crime writing of the popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami to versions of "the violence-media complex" in the work of the American novelist Patricia Highsmith and the Argentinian author Juan Jos Saer, True Crime is a penetrating look at modern violence and the modern media and the ties that bind them in contemporary life., 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 writes, we can at least "all [be] miserable together." The "murder leisure industry," its media, and its public: these modern styles of violence and intimacy, sociality and belief, are the subjects of True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. True Crime draws on and makes available to American readers--and tests out--work on systems theory and media theory (for instance, the transformative work of Niklas Luhmann on social systems and of Friedrich Kittler on the media apriori--work yet to make its impact on the American scene). True Crime is at once a study of a minor genre that is a scale model of modern society and a critical introduction to these forms of social and media history and theory. With examples, factual and fictional, of the scene of the crime ranging from Poe to CSI, from the true crime writing of the popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami to versions of "the violence-media complex" in the work of the American novelist Patricia Highsmith and the Argentinian author Juan José Saer, True Crime is a penetrating look at modern violence and the modern media and the ties that bind them in contemporary life., Browse a bookstore and you will find a healthy shelf labeled "Crime." Beside 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, writes Mark Seltzer, and the confusion of reality and event has saturated-and even defined-contemporary American culture. 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. 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. As victims of the "CSI-effect," he argues, we've come to see the world as the scene of a crime. From Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories up to Patricia Highsmith's ambiguous Ripley and the rash of reality TV shows, True Crime is an unblinking look at the thriving "murder leisure industry." It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand why culture is increasingly defined by and addicted to violence., 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.
LC Classification NumberHV6030.S46 2007
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