The Serial Podcast and Storytelling in the Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9780367887179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 118 str.

Ellen McCracken

Opis

This volume analyzes the Serial podcast, situating it in the trajectory of other popular crime narratives and contemporary cultural theory.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Unending Story

[Ellen McCracken]

1. The Ethics of Serialized True Crime: Fictionality in Serial Season One

[Erica Haugtvedt]

2. Sounds Authentic: The Acoustic Construction of Serial’s Storyworld

[Jillian DeMair]

3. Narrative Levels, Theory of Mind, and Sociopathy in True-Crime Narrative—Or, How Is Serial Different from Your Average Dateline Episode?

[David Letzler]

4. The Serial Commodity: Rhetoric, Recombination, and Indeterminacy in the Digital Age

[Ellen McCracken]

5. "What We Know": Convicting Narratives in NPR’s Serial

[Sandra Kumamoto Stanley]

6. The Impossible Ethics of Serial: Sarah Koenig, Foucault, Lacan

[Ryan Engley]

7. Serial’s Aspirational Aesthetics and Racial Erasure

[Charli Valdez]

O autorze

Ellen McCracken is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.