“Representation matters,” says Hannah Beacher, who will lecture in Iowa City on April 29 for the 2018 Flyover Fest. “It’s important that the people who the story is representing are also behind the scenes, making sure that that representation is truth.”
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Talking Movies: Exploring true crime
Americans like to feel that we invented the ‘true crime’ genre. We think that it happened sometime after World War II, was rooted in classic detective fiction and was nurtured by pulp magazines, film noir, excessive smoking and the shock and disillusionment bred from serial killers and post-war ennui. Several movies currently showing in town […]

