Detective Magazines (Midi) (Paperback)(English / French / German)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Detective Magazines In 1924 the "true crime" detective magazine genre was born, and it thrived and evolved in all its fishnet-stocking, smoking-gun glory until its demise in the mid-1990s.
Full description- Publisher: Taschen GmbH
- Published: 01 November 2008
- Format: Paperback 333 pages
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- Categories: Art History: From c 1960 | Graphic Design | True Crime | Serials, Periodicals, Abstracts, Indexes | Popular Culture
- ISBN 13: 9783822825594 ISBN 10: 382282559X
- Sales rank: 339,802
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Full description for Detective Magazines
In 1924 the "true crime" detective magazine genre was born, and it thrived and evolved in all its fishnet-stocking, smoking-gun glory until its demise in the mid-1990s. Cashing in on people's secret voyeuristic, morbid natures, magazines such as True Detective and American Detective profiled scandalous crimes and the villains - often sexy women in stiletto heels - who committed them. Over the years, the magazines became more and more focused on crime and sexuality, until they became smutty to the point of being too racy for the newsstands. Approximately 500 pages of covers, spreads, and text will explore this sensational magazine genre in vibrant detail. Among the texts included are a profile of the eccentric man who invented the genre in 1924, profiles of the cover artists, a decade-by-decade analysis of what sort of crimes were most popular with readers, profiles of the writers (many of whom went on to fame in crime fiction writing), a feminist scholar's analysis of the portrayal of women on the magazine covers, and a reprint from a 1986 forensic magazine damning the magazines as porno for sadists. A comprehensive listing of all known titles and their publishers completes this ex
