Editors:
Encourages critical discussions around the representation of true crime
Brings together a range of unique and critical themes which have been under-explored
Discusses how media representations of crime can inform/misinform public understanding of crime and society
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Popular Culture ‘Trials’
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Front Matter
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True Crime Spaces
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book explores the recent surge in true crime by critically exploring how murder and violence are represented in documentaries, films, podcasts, museums, novels and in the press, and the effects. From a range of contributors, it touches on a wide variety of topics overall and illustrates how examining true crime across the changing popular media landscape can contribute to important debates in contemporary culture and society. It encourages a critical eye towards understanding the harmful stereotypes, myths and misinformation that popular media can bring.
Arranged into four sections, including: true crime trials, representations of victims, the consumption of serial killer narratives, and true crime spaces, each chapter explores different themes and topics across traditional and newer media. These topics include: emotion and appeals for justice in Making a Murderer, #MeToo and misogyny in crime narratives, true crime journalism being exploitative, the ethics of consuming dark tourism and the appetite for true crime, live streamed murder, and the ways in which true murder accounts might lend insight into other types of crime such as domestic violence and stalking. This book stimulates discussion on undergraduate courses in crime, media and culture as well as in film and media studies, and it also speaks to those with a general interest in true crime.
Keywords
- true crime
- serial killers
- Making a Murderer
- Serial
- documentary studies
- TV studies
- crime trials
- crime reporting
- migrant crisis
- stalking
- #Metoo
- Victims
- masculinity
- dark tourism
- crime museum
- crime and social media
- live stream murder
- crime, media and culture
Editors and Affiliations
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St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK
Maria Mellins
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University of Bath, Bath, UK
Sarah Moore
About the editors
Maria Mellins is an Associate Professor in Criminology, Sociology and Screen Media at St Mary’s University. She is also an Independent Stalking Advocacy Caseworker (ISAC).
Sarah Moore is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bath, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media
Editors: Maria Mellins, Sarah Moore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83758-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83757-0Published: 11 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83758-7Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 400
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Crime and the Media, Critical Criminology, Popular Culture, Criminal Behavior, Close Readings in Film and TV, Media Sociology