1st Edition

True Crime in American Media

Edited By George S. Larke-Walsh Copyright 2023
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effects, both positive and negative, this popularity has on perceptions of crime and the justice system in contemporary America. As a collection of new scholarship on the development, scope, and character of true crime in twenty-first century American... Read more

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

George S. Larke-Walsh

Beyond Entertainment: Podcasting and the Criminal Justice Reform "Niche"

Lindsey Sherrill

Chasing the Truth: Making a Murderer, Historical Narrativity and the Global Netflix Event

Caitlin Shaw

True Crime Adaptations and the Many Faces of the Atlanta Monster

Kyle A. Hammonds

True Crime, True Representation? Race and Injustice Narratives in Wrongful Conviction Podcasts

Robin Blom, Gabriel B. Tait, Gwyn Hultquist, Ida S. Cage, and Melodie K. Griffin

Unresolved - Narrative Strategies in an Unsolved True Crime: Depictions of the JonBenét Ramsey Killing

Elayne Chaplin and Melissa Chaplin

Breaking Silences, or Perpetuating Myths: Images of Mafia Violence in True Crime Documentary

George S. Larke-Walsh and Blake J. Wahlert

‘Exquisitely Criminal Production Music’: Television, Ethics and the Sound of True Crime

Toby Huelin

Barthes's "Grand Project" and the Negative Capability of Contemporary True Crime: On Errol Morris’s A Wilderness of Error

Michael Buozis

My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic‐Narrative Search for the Origins of Evil

Jesús Jiménez-Varea

Forensic Fandom: True Crime, Citizen Investigation and Social Media

Bethan Jones

"What Else Can I Add?": Inverting the Narrative through Female Perspectives in Falling for A KillerMy Favorite Murder, and Murder, Mystery & MakeUp.

Stella Marie Gaynor

Biography

George S. Larke-Walsh is a Full-Time Lecturer at the University of Sunderland, UK.