Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn

But how have American writers grappled with these changes? What happens when a journalist approaches the workings of organized crime not through its legendary Godfathers but through a workaday, low-level figure who informs on his mob? Why is it that interrogation scenes have become so central to prime-time police dramas of late? What is behind writers' recent fascination with "cold case" homicides, with private security, or with prisons? --

Author(s): Christopher Pierce Wilson
Published: 2010
Pages: 224
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines