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Satirical Techniques In Joan Didion's New Journalism

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Tom Wolfe defines New Journalism as follows: “it is distinguished not only by its use of fictional techniques, but also by the application of these techniques to capturing the nuances and particularities of perception, usually under extreme conditions”.

Joan Didion is strongly linked to the New Journalism movement that came up during the 1960s. New Journalism is presented almost as a new documentary form, which is the case of Didion’s style. The “camera eye” is quite visible in her texts, essays in particular, as a tool used to show a satirical point of view about the reality that surrounds her. She constantly uses long texts as reports, then she adds one sentence as judgment mirroring 'the camera eye,' with her lens zooming into detail,

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