True Crime in American Media
eBook - ePub

True Crime in American Media

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

True Crime in American Media

About this book

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effects, both positive and negative, this popularity has on perceptions of crime and the justice system in contemporary America.

As a collection of new scholarship on the development, scope, and character of true crime in twenty-first century American media, analyses stretch across film, streaming/broadcast TV, podcasts, and novels to explore the variety of ways true crime pervades modern culture. The reader is guided through a series of interconnected topics, starting with an examination of the contemporary success of true crime, the platforms involved, the narrative structures and engagement with audiences, moving on to debates on representation and the ethics involved in portraying both victims and perpetrators of crime within the genre.

This collection provides new critical work on American true crime media for all interested readers, and especially scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences. It offers a significant area of research in social sciences, criminology, media, and English Literature academic disciplines.

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Yes, you can access True Crime in American Media by George S. Larke-Walsh in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Criminology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032123479
eBook ISBN
9781000891720
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Criminology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Beyond Entertainment: Podcasting and the Criminal Justice Reform “Niche”
  12. 2 Chasing the Truth: Making a Murderer, Historical Narrativity and the Global Netflix Event
  13. 3 True Crime Adaptations and the Many Faces of the Atlanta Monster
  14. 4 True Crime, True Representation? Race and Injustice Narratives in Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
  15. 5 Unresolved – Narrative Strategies in an Unsolved True Crime: Depictions of the JonBenĂ©t Ramsey Killing
  16. 6 Breaking Silences, or Perpetuating Myths: Images of Mafia Violence in True Crime Documentary
  17. 7 ‘Exquisitely Criminal Production Music’: Television, Ethics and the Sound of True Crime
  18. 8 Barthes's “Grand Project” and the Negative Capability of Contemporary True Crime: On Errol Morris's A Wilderness of Error
  19. 9 My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic-Narrative Search for the Origins of Evil
  20. 10 Forensic Fandom: True Crime, Citizen Investigation and Social Media
  21. 11 “What Else Can I Add?”: Inverting the Narrative through Female Perspectives in Falling for A Killer, My Favorite Murder, and Murder, Mystery & Make Up
  22. Index