| LC control no. | gf2014026203 |
|---|---|
| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | True crime stories |
| Variant(s) | Crime narratives, Nonfiction Crime narratives, True Crime stories, True Non-fiction crime narratives Nonfiction crime narratives True crime literature True crime narratives |
| See also | Creative nonfiction |
| Scope note | Nonfiction crime narratives that are written in a novelistic style for popular audiences. |
| Found in | Reitz, J.M. ODLIS : online dictionary for library and information science, July 28, 2014 (true crime story: A nonfiction narrative in which the subject is an actual crime (murder, abduction, theft, etc.) so serious, bizarre, or inexplicable as to excite popular interest and curiosity. Unusual serial murders and murderers often receive book-length treatment.) Cambridge companion to American crime fiction, 2010: p. 122 (True crime literature first flourished during the Elizabethan era with simple pamphlets detailing the exploits of local murders) pp. 123-24 (Thomas Duke's 1910 Celebrated criminal cases of America established true crime as a national genre in the Unites States--describing such events as the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, the killing by a mob of Mormon leader Joseph Smith, the Haymarket riots of Chicago, the draft riots in New York City; Truman Capote's In cold blood led to the development of what we now know as true crime books-- thick paperbacks featuring the inevitable photo insert; the label of "true" crime gives the material in these books the aura of fact--an air of authority enhanced by the journalistic, "non-literary" style in which they are written, by the thick description of events, and by the inclusion of supporting photographic and other documentary evidence) pp. 125-26 (true crime books in the 1960s generally presented violence and evil as a threat from without, rather than within, the family; since the seventies, a greater number concern murders committed by those men who are entrusted with protecting and caring for women; in true crime books, fathers, and sometimes mothers, kill their children, and children kill their parents; most of all, women who are duped by the promise of romance are killed by their erstwhile lovers; true crime books are a popular arena for metaphysical discussions about the nature of evil) British crime writing : an encyclopedia, 2009: p. xvi (True Crime) LCSH (True crime stories. UF Crime narratives, Nonfiction; Crime narratives, True; Crime stories, True; Nonfiction crime narratives; True crime narratives. Here are entered works on nonfiction crime narratives, written in a novelistic style for a popular audience, frequently focusing on biography, criminal psychology, police investigations, and trial procedures.) |
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