The most confronting images seem at first to be everyday, calm snapshots and therefore unmediated. Most true crime programs use rough camera work to emulate reality, but voice overs and sinister music often overconstruct the horror. These shows are hyper-realistic, more real than reality. Truth as Fiction Crime literature intersects with journalistic portrayals. Examining intertextuality, any news report plays off of many other texts, some news, some fictional.
Mythology is important to connect readers into a system of meanings.
Representation of Realism in Fiction Conventions dicate what appears to be realistic in fiction, and this is dependant on culture and time. There are many realisms, no one realism. For example, detail in costuming. Representations should conform to what we expect will happen. There are notions we take for granted, many of which conform to stereotypes.