Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media

ISBN-13: 9783030837570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 420 str.

Maria Mellins; Sarah Moore

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction. Sarah Moore and Maria Mellins

Popular Culture ‘Trials’

Chapter 2 The deceased-accused and the victim as a commodity: Jimmy Savile as a case study to examine the role of real-crime documentary in reproducing violence as entertainment. Susanna Menis

Chapter 3 ‘Don’t let Netflix tell you what to think!’: debates on getting to know the accused/convicted in Making a Murderer and other injustice narratives. George S. Larke-Walsh

Chapter 4 From ‘forensic narratives’ to ‘narratives of forensics’: telling stories about the murder of Gay Gibson. Alexa Neale

Chapter 5 In consideration of serial violence: the perils of repetition and routine in ‘true crime’ documentaries. Sarah Moore 

Representations of Victims – Survivors 

Chapter 6 ‘Stay sexy and don’t get murdered’: depictions of female victimhood in post-Me Too true crime. Megan Hoffman and Simon Hobbs

Chapter 7 Stalking, the media and raising public awareness. Maria Mellins

Chapter 8 Human trafficking and coercive control: representations in media and challenges in legislation. Carole Murphy

Consuming Homicide Narratives 

Chapter 9 ‘That photograph’ – serial killer as modern celebrity. Ian Cummins, Marian Foley and Martin King

Chapter 10 Real-life criminals and crime fictions: adapting the serial killer as gothic monster in TV drama. Brigid Cherry

Chapter 11 Gender, true crime and the violent subject. Louise Wattis  

True Crime Spaces 

Chapter 12 Feeding the fascination: crime-related tourism and the True Crime Museum. Hannah Thurston

Chapter 13 Exploring the presence of the digital detective within the true-crime genre and its online spaces. Farhana Irshad

Chapter 14 Live streaming of murder: regulatory responses and challenges. Gregor Urbas

Index

O autorze

Maria Mellins is an Associate Professor in Criminology, Sociology and Screen Media at St Mary’s University. She is also an Independent Stalking Advocacy Caseworker (ISAC).

Sarah Moore is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bath, UK.

 

Blurb

This book explores the recent surge in true crime by critically exploring how murder and violence are represented in documentaries, films, podcasts, museums, novels and in the press, and the effects. From a range of contributors, it touches on a wide variety of topics overall and illustrates how examining true crime across the changing popular media landscape can contribute to important debates in contemporary culture and society. It encourages a critical eye towards understanding the harmful stereotypes, myths and misinformation that popular media can bring.

Arranged around four sections, including: true crime trials, representations of victims, the consumption of serial killer narratives, and true crime spaces, each chapter explores different themes and topics across traditional and newer media. These topics include: emotion and appeals for justice in Making a Murderer, #MeToo and misogyny in crime narratives, true crime journalism being exploitative, the ethics of consuming dark tourism and the appetite for true crime, live streamed murder, and the ways in which true murder accounts might lend insight into other types of crime such as domestic violence and stalking. This book stimulates discussion on courses in crime, media and culture as well as in film and media studies, and it also speaks to those with a general interest in true crime.