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Black Dahlia
capital punishment
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conspiracy theories
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crimes of passion
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Hollywood
JFK
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Lord Lucan
Marilyn Monroe
Mary Bell
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murder
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scandal
serial killers
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true crime
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Warren Commission
Product details
- ISBN 9781476671093
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 2018
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Even in a genre well known for generating controversy, some true-crime and scandal books have wielded a particular power to unsettle readers, provoke the authorities, and generate renewed focus on a case. For crimes and scandals that have attracted a library of more dubious investigations, the cumulative effect of the literature has been equally contentious, clouding the “truth” with a trail of myths and inaccuracies. From high-profile publishing sensations such as Ten Rillington Place, Fatal Vision, and Mommie Dearest to the wealth of writing on the JFK assassination, the death of Marilyn Monroe, and the Black Dahlia murder, this work delves into that hard copy era when crime and scandal books had a cultural impact beyond the genre’s film and TV documentaries, fueling outcries that sometimes matched the notoriety of the cases they discussed, and leaving legacies that still resonate today.
Julian Upton has written about film and popular culture for the Journal of British Cinema and Television, Bright Lights Film Journal, and Filmfax. He lives in the United Kingdom.
