True Crime in American Media

Herausgeber: Larke-Walsh, George S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781032123479
• ISBN-10: 1032123478
• Artikelnr.: 67514533

Autorenporträt

George S. Larke-Walsh is a Full-Time Lecturer at the University of Sunderland, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Beyond Entertainment: Podcasting and the Criminal Justice Reform "Niche"
2. Chasing the Truth: Making a Murderer, Historical Narrativity and the
Global Netflix Event
3. True Crime Adaptations and the Many Faces of the Atlanta Monster
4. True Crime, True Representation? Race and Injustice Narratives in
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
5. Unresolved - Narrative Strategies in an Unsolved True Crime: Depictions
of the JonBenét Ramsey Killing
6. Breaking Silences, or Perpetuating Myths: Images of Mafia Violence in
True Crime Documentary
7. 'Exquisitely Criminal Production Music': Television, Ethics and the
Sound of True Crime
8. Barthes's "Grand Project" and the Negative Capability of Contemporary
True Crime: On Errol Morris's A Wilderness of Error
9. My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic¿Narrative Search for the Origins of Evil
10. Forensic Fandom: True Crime, Citizen Investigation and Social Media
11. "What Else Can I Add?": Inverting the Narrative through Female
Perspectives in Falling for A Killer, My Favorite Murder, and Murder,
Mystery & MakeUp.