Tag-Archiv: True Crime

Futter für Fans

Jason P. Vest: The Wire, Deadwood, Homicide, and NYPD Blue: Violence is Power. Santa Barbara: Praeger 2011. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “David Milch and David Simon are two of the most prolific and successful television drama writers in the last 30 years. These talented writers have combined real-world knowledge with wild imaginations and understandings of the [...]

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Crime Fiction etc. (Forschung)

Ilana Shiloh: The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room. Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film. New York [et al.]: Lang 2011. Verlagsanzeige (inkl. ToC): “Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre [...]

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Lucie Duff Gordons Feuerbach-Übersetzung (etc.)

Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials. Translated from the German of Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach by Lady Duff Gordon. London: Murray 1846 (vollständig bei Google). Mehr über Lucie Duff Gordon (1828-1869) in ODNB. Lucie Duff Cooper nähert sich den Feuerbach-Fällen ohne Scheu, sie kürzt resolut und übersetzt sie in ein schlankes und (wenn ich mich nicht [...]

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a timely psychopath

Laura James on Gold Medal Killer by Diana Britt Franklin (2010).

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True Crime: Genie und Verbrechen …

Albert Borowitz: Musical mysteries: From Mozart to John Lennon. (True Crime History Series) Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP 2010. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or believed to be murdered, and one of the greatest Renaissance composers slaughtered his [...]

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Making Heroes (Radio & Polizei, Forschung, USA)

Kathleen Battles: Calling All Cars. Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2010. Verlagsanzeige (inkl. ToC): “How the cops became more popular than the crooks. Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this [...]

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True Crime: The Borowitz Collection

The Borowitz Collection at Kent State University Library: “This extensive collection, donated by Albert Borowitz and Helen Osterman Borowitz, includes both primary and secondary sources on crime as well as works of literature based on true crime incidents. The collection documents the history of crime, with primary emphasis on the United States, England, France, and [...]

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True Crime

“Wenn das Grauen zum Alltag wird”: Susi Wimmer (SZ) über Richard Thiess (dtv).

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DAZ

“The future of crime fiction lies not in inventing ever more colourful crimes but in focusing on real-life wrongdoing”: Peace über Ellroy (Guardian [sic!]).

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True Crime

Vom Klappentext der amerikanischen Ausgabe: In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were taken into police custody following a murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerer, whose sexual advances hed seemingly grown tired of rejecting. Carr, still in bloodstained clothes, had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac [...]

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