Charles R. Acland teaches cultural and media studies in the Faculty of General Studies at the University of Calgary, where he is an assistant professor.

• Part 1: Youth -- Youth in Crisis -- The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility -- Part 2: Murder -- News and Sensations: On Images of Crime -- "Tall, Dark, and Lethal": The Discourses of Sexual Transgression in the Preppy Murder -- The Subject in Crime: Confessions as a Site of "Self-Evidence" -- Part 3: Spectacle -- Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show -- The Body by the River: Youth Movies and the Adult Gaze -- The Spectacle of Wasted Youth: A Felt Crisis in the United States