Socialist Serial Killers Portrayed in Docufi ction and Neo-noir Cover Image

Szocialista sorozatgyilkosok a dokumentarista játékfi lm és a neo-noir ábrázolásában
Socialist Serial Killers Portrayed in Docufi ction and Neo-noir

Author(s): János Tárkányi
Subject(s): Media studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Medea Egyesület
Keywords: docufi ction; neo-noir genre; serial killers; Citizen X; Strangled; Árpád Sopsits; Chris Gerolmo;

Summary/Abstract: It’s hard to fi nd a reader who wouldn’t have had a crime novel in his hand. Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, RobinCook, and many other writers‚ novels are well known. Characteristics of the genre are that someone commits one (or more)murder, and this is revealed and proved by a police offi cer with excellent abilities and talent. When we take a crime novel off theshelf, we are aware, however we read it because there (although the culprit is undoubtedly coming up), the way how detectivesroll up the case is more interesting. How detectives catch the culprit so that the reader has no idea of its identity until the end ofthe story. The cinema, once awakened to consciousness, are mostly based by this genre. That’s how the crime, the noir, or theneo-noir were born, leaning toward other related genres. In fact, some of this genre fi lms are mostly are based on reality events.A new genre, a new typology was born, the docufi ction.

  • Issue Year: XV/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 147-156
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Hungarian