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Author Trotti, Michael Ayers.

Title The body in the reservoir : murder & sensationalism in the South / Michael Ayers Trotti
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-294) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Sensationalism in journalism -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century
Sensationalism in journalism -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 20th century
Murder -- Press coverage -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century
Murder -- Press coverage -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 20th century
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Sensationalism in journalism
Sensationsjournalismus
Mord
Virginia -- Richmond
Richmond, Va.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007044720
ISBN 9780807899038
0807899038
9781469604374
146960437X