True Crime

David Schmid

doi:10.1002/9781444317916.ch15

True Crime

David Schmid

English

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Companion to Crime Fiction
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	198-209
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9781405167659
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444317916.ch15
State	Published - Apr 30 2010

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"Had I but known" school of true crime narratives - A Father's Story
Capote, much more sympathetic to idea - that childhood trauma can explain adult actions
Crime narratives, becoming a staple feature of journalism and American popular culture in general
In Cold Blood, inaugurating a period of unprecedented authorial intimacy with subjects of true crime narratives
Pearson's imagination, particularly fired by the contrast between appearance and reality
Precise origins of term "true crime" - obscure
Striking degree of consensus, among scholars of early American crime narratives about Puritan view of the criminal
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood in 1965, demise predicted at regular intervals

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