- Title
- Lost in the media: Evil Angels and twentieth-century Australian true crime
- Creator
- Smith, Rosalind
- Relation
- Telling Stories: Australian life and literature 1935-2012 p. 418-424
- Relation
- http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/ts-9781921867460.html
- Publisher
- Monash University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- John Bryson's 1985 account of the Lindy Chamberlain trial and conviction, Evil Angels, is one of the first Australian instances of the "new journalism," a form of non-fiction writing that replaces traditional journalistic claims to objectivity with a self-reflexive approach to media processes and a subjective element within reporting. Howevever, Evil Angels is new journalism only in partial and complicated ways. It couples its exposure of media bias with a fixed conviction of both its omniscient narrator's objective access to the truth and an explicit political agenda: to persuade the reader of Chamberlain's innocence by telling a true story. In effect, the book borrows some of the techniques of new journalism to locate media bias everywhere but in its own account. It shackles the appearance of the new to a traditional journalistic agenda of finding the truth because this isn't just journalism. Evil Angels is also the seminal Australian example of late twentieth-century true crime writing.
- Subject
- true crime; new journalism; Evil Angels; John Bryson; Lindy Chamberlain
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1054139
- Identifier
- uon:15709
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781921867460
- Language
- eng
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