1st Edition
Televising True Crime in the Digital Age Critical Feminist Perspectives
Introduction
Erin Meyers, Anna Froula, Tanya Horeck & Melissa Lenos
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)
Amber Hardiman
2. ‘I Felt a Rage Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Felt’: Anger, Ethics, and the Post #MeToo True Crime Documentary
Simon Hobbs and Megan Hoffman
3. “What You Did is Not Okay”: The Emotional Truth Behind American Vandal’s Absurdity
Max Dosser
Part II: Expanding Genres, Crossing Platforms
4. Girl Boss Grifters: True Con Programming, Gender, and Televisual Critique in Late Capitalism
Jorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard
5. The Scene of the Crime: The Pragmatics of Investigative Structure, Evidence, and Exposition Across Genres in Ghost Adventures: Horror at Joe Exotic Zoo
Matt Boyd Smith
6. Cuban True Crime at Prime Time: The Case of Tras la huella
Carlos Uxó
7. Depicting a 21st Century Crime Family: The Murdaugh Multiverse
Amanda Konkle
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)
Su Holmes and Claire Hines
9. Don’t F*ck with True Crime Fans in the Narrative: Ethics and the Viewer-as Subject in True Crime Documentaries
Bethan Jones
10. ‘From Devour to Abhor’: True Crime Television Viewers and Nonviewers
Amanda Keeler and Kathleen Battles
Part IV: True Crime Media and Celebrity Culture
11. ‘Oh that Pesky DNA!’: Keith Morrison, Dateline, and True Crime Celebrity
Erin Meyers
12. ‘In Plain Sight:’: British Television Exposés of Savile, Brand, and Harris
Ruth Deller
13. Built on the Bodies of Women: The Black Dahlia Murder, Celebrity Corpses, and True Crime Media
Dahlia Schweitzer
14. ‘The Photograph is Handsome, as is the Boy’: The ‘Hot Felony’ of Luigi Mangione
Tanya Horeck
Index
Biography
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.
