LEADER 03741oam 2200505 450 001 9910746083603321 005 20231124201049.0 010 $a9783031410451$b(eBook) 010 $a3031410459$b(eBook) 010 $z9783031410444 010 $z3031410440 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-41045-1 035 $a(OCoLC)1398495488 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928204526100041 100 $a20230921h20232023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn#|||mna|a 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeconstructing true crime literature /$fCharlotte Barnes 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cMacmillan Palgrave,$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 212 pages) 225 1 $aCrime Files Series,$x2947-8359 311 08$aPrint version: Barnes, Charlotte Deconstructing True Crime Literature Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2023 9783031410444 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter one: Introduction -- Chapter two: Time of Death: The early era of True Crime -- Chapter three: Writing the ?I? in True Crime -- Chapter four: Vincent Bugliosi?s Objectivity: Can we side-step bias in True Crime? -- Chapter five: The Writer Inside Me: Does Ann Rule?s proximity to the serial killer celebrity translate to a reliable re-telling? -- Chapter six: Writing True Crime from a safe distance -- Chapter seven: Truman Capote?s World of Make-Believe: How does figurative language and creative license distort truth in In Cold Blood? -- Chapter eight: 3,500 files and an unfinished script: Is well-curated research and collaboration the key to truthful True Crime, considered through Michelle McNamara?s I?ll Be Gone in the Dark? -- Chapter nine: Writing creative (true) crime narratives -- Chapter ten: Manson?s Girls Make a Comeback: How (c)overt is the influence of the Charles Manson case on Emma Cline?s The Girls, and should readers be expected to ignore the connections? -- Chapter eleven: Narrative Hybridity in True Crime: Is Maggie Nelson integrating poetry into the True Crime genre? -- Chapter twelve: Conclusion. 330 $a"This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a work?s contents. In analysing seminal and lesser-known works, the areas of authenticity, accuracy, and author proximity are considered to form a framework on which an individual publication?s subgenre (re)categorisation can be assessed. The book considers the likes of Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Maggie Nelson, among other notable authors. Their works ? those that fit into True Crime and those that defy categorisation within the genre as it exists ? are reviewed, and their defining features critiqued. Topics such as narrative methodologies, figurative language, and utilisation of research are considered in support of this. These strands combine to a larger discussion regarding a deconstruction of True Crime, and the ways in which this will improve the social responsibility of the genre, and encourage a more conscientious consumerism of it."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aCrime files series.$x2947-8359 606 $aTrue crime stories$3https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008498 615 0$aTrue crime stories. 676 $a364.1 700 $aBarnes$b Charlotte$01427959 801 0$bGW5XE 801 1$bGW5XE 801 2$bGW5XE 801 2$bYDX 801 2$bEBLCP 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bCaOWtU 912 $a9910746083603321 996 $aDeconstructing true crime literature$93563072 997 $aUNINA