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Ripped from the headlines! : the shocking true stories behind the movies' most memorable crimes / Harold Schechter.
In this collection of essays, true-crime historian Schechter reveals the real-life stories behind classic movies.
Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history-- but found inspiration in true events. Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. Take a trip down the crossroads of fact and fiction, and discover the sensational real-life stories that are more shocking, taboo, and fantastic than even the most imaginative screenwriter can dream up. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 1542041805 (h.c.)
- ISBN: 9781542041805 (h.c.)
- ISBN: 9781542041829
- ISBN: 1542041821
- Physical Description: xix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Little A, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Alpha dog -- Anatomy of a murder -- Arsenic and old lace -- Badlands -- Blood & orchids -- Body snatcher -- Butterfield 8 -- Chicago and Roxie Hart -- Child 44 -- Dirty Harry -- Double indemnity -- Eaten alive! -- Elephant -- Five star final -- Frenzy -- Fugitive -- Fury -- High Sierra -- Hills have eyes -- Hitch-hiker -- Honeymoon killers -- Looking for Mr. Goodbar -- M -- Monsieur Verdoux -- Murder on the Orient Express -- Night of the hunter -- Phenix City story -- Place in the sun -- Psycho -- Rope -- Scream -- Shadow of a doubt -- Strangers -- Targets -- 10 to midnight -- To die for -- While the city sleeps -- Woman's vengeance -- You only live once -- Young savages. |
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| Subject: | Motion picture authorship > History. Motion pictures > History. True crime stories > History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 791.43655 S314r 2020 (Text) | 33126024453031 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | 791.43655 S314r 2020 (Text) | 33126024452868 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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