02216cam a2200301 i 4500 431231229 TxAuBib 20200824120000.0 200724s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2020016941 9781542041805 HRD 24.95 1542041805 HRD 24.95 TxAuBib rda Schechter, Harold. Ripped from the headlines [BOOK] : the shocking true stories behind the movies' most memorable crimes / Harold Schechter. First edition. New York : Little A, 2020. xix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy; 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. And each found inspiration in true events that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics, and grindhouse horrors. So what’s the reality behind Psycho, Badlands, The Hills Have Eyes, A Place in the Sun, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Dirty Harry? How did such tabloid-ready killers as Bonnie and Clyde, body snatchers Burke and Hare, Texas sniper Charles Whitman Jr., nurse-slayer Richard Speck, and Leopold and Loeb exert their power on the public imagination and become the stuff of movie lore? In this collection of revelatory essays, true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes a fascinating trip down the crossroads of fact and fiction to reveal the sensational real-life stories that are more shocking, taboo, and fantastic than even the most imaginative screenwriter can dream up. Provided by publisher. 20200824. Crime in motion pictures History. Motion pictures History. True crime stories History.