'The bastards are making it up!' -, Fachbücher von Miriam Halfmann

Journalism is commonly thought of as objective, neutral, unbiased. However, there was a time when these notions were heavily contested even by reporters themselves. The American 1950s and 1960s were earth-shattering decades in every major respect: socially, politically, and culturally. Changes in these fields shook the nation and triggered events that to many people were extreme to the point they seemed unreal. Desperate times called for desperate measures: Soon, journalists traded their signature style of reporting for a style that read like fiction. They increasingly acknowledged those bizarre times by fictionalizing their works, even producing whole volumes on the events they covered: New journalism was born. Miriam Halfmann explores the main works of the two most luminous figures on the scene: Norman Mailer s The Armies of the Night and Truman Capote s In Cold Blood. She contextualiz.