Televising True Crime in the Digital Age

Critical Feminist Perspectives

AvErin A. Meyers,Anna Froula

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Routledge Advances in Television Studies

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Beskrivning

This collection offers a critical and feminist media scholarship approach to the ongoing 21st-century true crime media boom.Including contributions from a range of media scholars with diverse areas of expertise and interest, televising true crime features essays that analyze the intersections between and across streaming programs, traditional television, and podcasts, while also exploring the ethics and audiences of true crime, narrative and affect, and genre. Each section presents several essays addressing broad topics from divergent theoretical and methodological approaches but sharing an underlying critical feminist approach to media culture.This multidisciplinary volume will interest students and researchers of media studies, cultural studies, television studies, journalism, critical feminism, true crime genre, documentary studies, platform studies, and gender studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:710 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Advances in Television Studies
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032758206

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Erin A. Meyers is Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism and Public Relations, Oakland University, USA.Anna Froula is Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English, East Carolina University, USA and Founder and Program Director of Veteran to Scholar Boot Camp.Tanya Horeck is Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies and Director of the Research Centre for Media, Arts & Creative Technologies (MACT) at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK.Melissa Lenos is Senior Director of Graduate Advising and Engagement at University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Part I: True Crime Media and Feminist Ethics 1. Feminist Documentary ‘Voice’ in the Post-Truth, Digital, Streaming Era: Comparing Lifetime’s Surviving Jeffrey Epstein (2020) with Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020); 2. ‘I Felt a Rage Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Felt’: Anger, Ethics, and the Post #MeToo True Crime Documentary; 3. “What You Did is Not Okay”: The Emotional Truth Behind American Vandal’s Absurdity Part II: Expanding Genres, Crossing Platforms 4. Girl Boss Grifters: True Con Programming, Gender, and Televisual Critique in Late Capitalism; 5. The Scene of the Crime: The Pragmatics of Investigative Structure, Evidence, and Exposition Across Genres in Ghost Adventures: Horror at Joe Exotic Zoo; 6. Cuban True Crime at Prime Time: The Case of Tras la huella; 7. Depicting a 21st Century Crime Family: The Murdaugh Multiverse Part III: Feminist Approaches to Production and Consumption of True Crime Media 8. ‘I Think the Starting Point is Fundamentally…Why Are We Doing This?’: Producing True Crime Television (UK); 9. Don’t F*ck with True Crime Fans in the Narrative: Ethics and the Viewer-as Subject in True Crime Documentaries; 10. ‘From Devour to Abhor’: True Crime Television Viewers and Nonviewers Part IV: True Crime Media and Celebrity Culture 11. ‘Oh that Pesky DNA!’: Keith Morrison, Dateline, and True Crime Celebrity; 12. ‘In Plain Sight:’: British Television Exposés of Savile, Brand, and Harris; 13. Built on the Bodies of Women: The Black Dahlia Murder, Celebrity Corpses, and True Crime Media; 14. 'The Photograph is Handsome, as is the Boy’: The ‘Hot Felony’ of Luigi Mangione; Index