The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South

by Michael Ayers Trotti

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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. But while others have emphasized the importance of the penny press and yellow journalism on the shifting nature of the media and cultural responses to violence, Michael Trotti...Read more
  • ISBN10 0807899038
  • ISBN13 9780807899038
  • Publish Date 15 February 2010 (first published 1 April 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 320
  • Language English