The Rise of True Crime: Twentieth Century Murder and American Popular Culture by Jean Murley

The Rise of True Crime: Twentieth Century Murder and American Popular Culture

Jean Murley

180 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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During the 1950s and 1960s True Detective magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. It was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and was more willing to make conjectures about the un...

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