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Author Trotti, Michael Ayers.

Title The body in the reservoir : murder & sensationalism in the South / Michael Ayers Trotti.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
©2008
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-294) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Discovering the Body; 1. The Origins of Virginia Crime Sensationalism; 2. Sensational Crime Comes of Age: The Cluverius Case of 1885; 3. The Disenchantment of Sensational Murder; 4. African American Sensations: Jim Crow Justice and the Richmond Planet; 5. Images of Murder: The Visual Revolution of the Halftone; 6. The Public Suspense Is Over; Epilogue -- Mass Culture's Search for Disorder; Notes; Index.
Summary This book covers mass media and the sensational crime. Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virginia, "The Body in the Reservoir" uses these gripping stories of crime to explore the evolution of sensationalism in southern culture. In Richmond, as across the nation, the embrace of modernity was accompanied by the prodigious growth of mass culture and its accelerating interest in lurid stories of crime and bloodshed.
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Subject Sensationalism in journalism -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century.
Sensationalism in journalism.
Virginia -- Richmond.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Sensationalism in journalism -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Murder -- Press coverage -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century.
Murder -- Press coverage -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term Geschichte
1800 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Trotti, Michael Ayers. Body in the reservoir. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008 9780807858424 (DLC) 2007044720 (OCoLC)180204958
ISBN 9780807899038 (electronic book)
0807899038 (electronic book)
9781469604374 (electronic book)
146960437X (electronic book)
9780807858424
0807858420
9780807831786
0807831786

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