Murder/Media/Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Seltzer (0000-0002-3646-4638, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-41 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.38.1.11 |
| OpenAlex | W2171085657 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article has been drawn from a larger study by the author, True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. Here the focus is on a minor genre—true crime—thatat the same time is a scale model of modern society. True crime is crime fact that reads like, or looks like, crime fiction. It is one of the popular genres of our pathological public sphere and an integral part of our contemporary “wound culture.” True crime maps that vague and shifting region between real and fictional reality where mass belief resides. Thus, the known world of true crime—the world as the scene of the crime—is bound up through and through with the reality of the mass media. Via instances of true crime (from the work of Haruki Murakami to the forensic work of CSI) and via instances of its fictional codependent, the crime novel, this account traces the media a priori of modern society and “the crime system” that binds modern violence and the modern media today
Crime scene · Criminology · Cultural Criminology · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Mass media · Modernity · Political science · Public sphere · Sociology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
Of monsters and men
What’s the deal with ‘websleuthing’? News media representations of amateur detectives in networked spaces
Forever trapped in the imaginary of late capitalism? The serialized true crime podcast as a wake-up call in times of criminological slumber
Pedophile Hunters and Performing Masculinities Online
Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)
Spectacular Realities
Interaction Ritual
The State of Exception
Normal Accidents
Modernity and Self-Identity
Der Nomos der Erde im Völkerrecht des Jus Publicum Europaeum
The Reality of the Mass Media
Problems of Form
"A Redescription of "Romantic Art
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |