1st Edition

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness A Docalogue

Edited By Jaimie Baron, Kristen Fuhs Copyright 2022
118 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

118 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

118 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The third volume in the Docalogue series, this book explores the significance of the documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020), which became 'must-see-TV' for a newly captive audience during the global Covid-19 pandemic. The series – a true-crime, tabloid spectacle about a murder-for-hire plot within the big cat trade – prompts interesting questions about which... Read more

Introduction: The spectacle of Tiger King

Kristen Fuhs

Chapter 1: Captive audiences: quarantining with Tiger King

Hannah Boast and Nicole Seymour

Chapter 2: Netflix’s docuseries style: generic chaos and affect in Tiger King

Jorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard

Chapter 3: #carolebaskinkilledherhusband: the gender politics of Tiger King meme culture

Tanya Horeck

Chapter 4: Labor, celebrity, and the carnivalesque world of Tiger King

Kate Fortmueller

Chapter 5: "I’m in a cage": a historical perspective on Tiger King’s animals

Vanessa Bateman

Biography

Jaimie Baron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is also the director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos.

Kristen Fuhs is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Woodbury University. She writes about documentary film, the American criminal justice system, and contemporary celebrity, and her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies; the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television; and the Journal of Sport & Social Issues.