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Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Mark Seltzer is Evan Frankel Professor of English at UCLA. He is author of Bodies and Machines and Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture , both published by Routledge. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Murder/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
