Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media

Chapter 1 Introduction. Sarah Moore and Maria Mellins
Popular Culture 'Trials'
Chapter 2 The deceased-accused and the victim as a commodity: Jimmy Savile as a case study to examine the role of real-crime documentary in reproducing violence as entertainment. Susanna Menis
Chapter 3 'Don't let Netflix tell you what to think!': debates on getting to know the accused/convicted in Making a Murderer and other injustice narratives. George S. Larke-Walsh
Chapter 4 From 'forensic narratives' to 'narratives of forensics': telling stories about the murder of Gay Gibson. Alexa Neale
Chapter 5 In consideration of serial violence: the perils of repetition and routine in 'true crime' documentaries. Sarah Moore
Representations of Victims - Survivors
Chapter 6 'Stay sexy and don't get murdered': depictions of female victimhood in post-Me Too true crime. Megan Hoffman and Simon Hobbs
Chapter 7 Stalking, the media and raising public awareness. Maria Mellins
Chapter 8 Human trafficking and coercive control: representations in media and challenges in legislation. Carole Murphy
Consuming Homicide Narratives
Chapter 9 'That photograph' - serial killer as modern celebrity. Ian Cummins, Marian Foley and Martin King
Chapter 10 Real-life criminals and crime fictions: adapting the serial killer as gothic monster in TV drama. Brigid CherryChapter 11 Gender, true crime and the violent subject. Louise Wattis
True Crime Spaces
Chapter 12 Feeding the fascination: crime-related tourism and the True Crime Museum. Hannah Thurston
Chapter 13 Exploring the presence of the digital detective within the true-crime genre and its online spaces. Farhana Irshad
Chapter 14 Live streaming of murder: regulatory responses and challenges. Gregor Urbas
Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030837572
• ISBN13: 9783030837570
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"