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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"True crime"”.
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The Murderess: A True Crime Chamber Opera
… a one-act, hour-long chamber opera inspired by true crime. It is a woman-focused story featuring three female singers and one tenor, and it is scored for Pierrot ensemble: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion. The original libretto by Trip Venturella tells the story of a nurse, …
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Musicalizing murder: defining the 'true crime musical'
… narrative form a subcategory that I call the “true crime musical.” Taking inspiration from the literary genre of the same name, these true crime musicals present one or more murder narratives and construct a violent world of the play. The true crime musical fictionalizes motive, subverts …
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Role of the Narrator in True Crime Documentary Series
Since the launch of the popular true crime podcast Serial in October 2014, true crime series, both fiction and non-fiction, have flooded network programming. The genre of true crime has existed since the early years of television, and the genre carries established tropes, such as the narrator. …
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Fear of Crime Through the Ears of a Murderino: The Effect of True Crime Podcasts on Fear of Crime
… was to explore levels and correlates of fear of crime among a sample of individuals who listen to true crime podcasts. An online survey was used to gauge respondents' levels of fear of crime before and after listening to a true crime audio podcast entitled <em>My Favorite Murder</em>. The survey …
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"A Self-Observing World of Observers": The American Serial Killer in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Contemporary True Crime Narratives
Particularly unique in true and fictionalized crime narratives is the serial killer; a criminal overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly white, and understood by cultural scholars like Mark Seltzer and David Schmid as distinctly American. This thesis offers a concerted look at one such figure: Lester …
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An investigation into crime tourism, screen tourism and dark fandoms
… Through ethnographic observation at eight true crime attractions (four in the UK and four in the US), the study positions true crime tourism as a niche form of dark tourism. Transatlantic similarities and contrasts in tourist practices and site narratives are identified and a positive …
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The Politics of Victimhood and Representation in Crime Literature
… of victimhood across the genres of crime fiction and true crime literature through case studies that illuminate the intersection of identity, representations of victimhood, and audiences’ understandings of victimhood. As Rebecca Wanzo argues in The Suffering Will Not Be Televised, …
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Guilty Pleasures: Narrative Craft and Mass Appeal in the Newgate Calendar
The Newgate Calendar, one of the earliest true crime documents, has rarely been studied. This paper aims to demonstrate that these texts illuminate various aspects of the culture that both produced and consumed the narratives the Calendar contains. In particular, I have focused on two different …