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What exactly is it about murder that claims such a powerful hold on the American imagination? In this book, Sara L. Knox examines postwar America's preoccupation with this act of violence. Demonstrating how American culture both consumes and produces tales of murder, Knox examines numerous relevant narratives--news stories, psychiatric testimony, legal transcripts, fictional accounts, and examples from the thriving literary genre of true crime.
In her approach to the telling of this cultural phenomenon, Knox draws on historical analysis and original research. She discusses such subjects as...

Amaia Elayne Collins is an African American with long black hair down to her shoulder blades and butter creme colored skin. She is 5' 7" and bares a resemblance to Trina Braxton. She is a beautiful head strong, highly independent woman. She is a widow who hasn't dated since her husband's death. She is attracted to Aahsod Jalil Patel who is a dark Indian American who wears his hair long yet tamed and resembles Ravi Kapoor. He is 6' 3" and gets anything and anyone he deems worthy. He doesn't give up without a fight. Amaia and Aahsod work for Karmikell's Fashions, Inc that is owned by the highly...

What exactly is it about murder that claims such a powerful hold on the American imagination? In this book, Sara L. Knox examines postwar America's preoccupation with this act of violence. Demonstrating how American culture both consumes and produces tales of murder, Knox examines numerous relevant narratives--news stories, psychiatric testimony, legal transcripts, fictional accounts, and examples from the thriving literary genre of true crime.
In her approach to the telling of this cultural phenomenon, Knox draws on historical analysis and original research. She discusses such subjects as...

This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life.

This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life. Law is constitutive of culture just as culture and cultural analyses shape, resist and interrogate legal regulation, exception and norms. So too does law have a dual capacity in the field of culture: it enables the formation of subjects and of cultural practices, and it constrains those very formations. This book uses the animating critical concerns of Cultural Studies over the last 20 years-that is, the symbolic, material, economic, and political practices and...