Proposals are now being accepted for the True Crime Area. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are also welcome.
• Novel, film, and television adaptations of criminal cases
• Documentaries and television series based on True Crime
• Biography, autobiography, and nonfiction adaptations of criminal cases and criminals
• True Crime authors/works
• The True Crime Genre
• Specific True Crime cases
• Explorations of Forensic Science, Criminal Investigation, and Profiling
• Effects of Publicity and Media hype of True Crime cases
• The Popularity of True Crime in publishing, television, and film
• The History of True Crime reporting
• A & E’s “Cold Case Files”, CBS’ “48 Hours Mystery”, Court TV’s “The Investigators”, etc.
• Homicide and Serial Homicide as portrayed in Mass Media (Film, Television, Publishing, Journalism, etc. )
• And much more...
Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to James Yates at the email or physical addresses below by November 15, 2005. Please include a current curriculum vitae and a working bibliography for your paper.

James Yates
Department of English, Foreign Language, and Humanities
Box 242
Northwestern Oklahoma State University
Alva, Oklahoma 73717
580.327.8469
jnyates@nwosu.edu

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