Démocratie criminelle : les périodiques de true crime américains, de la National Police Gazette à True Detective
This article sketches out a genealogy of true crime literature in the US, from its birth in the National Police Gazette in the 19th century to its classic incarnation in True Detective, which was launched in 1924 and provided a template for dozens of American true crime magazines. Underlining the ep...
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| Language: | English |
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Criminocorpus
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Criminocorpus |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/5178 |
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| Summary: | This article sketches out a genealogy of true crime literature in the US, from its birth in the National Police Gazette in the 19th century to its classic incarnation in True Detective, which was launched in 1924 and provided a template for dozens of American true crime magazines. Underlining the epistemological ambiguity of these periodicals, which were caught in a complex negociation between truth and fiction, it looks at their narrative guidelines, their dialogism which blended the voices of the authors and of the police, and the strategies they deployed in order to transform their readership into an « imagined community » of crime-fighting citizens. In conclusion, it emphasizes the political ambivalence of a class of magazines that was officially devoted to the cause of law and order but secretly defined the American nation by its very opposite : the democratic universality of crime. |
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| ISSN: | 2108-6907 |