Televising True Crime in the Digital Age

Erin Meyers is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism and Public Relations, Oakland University, USA.Anna Froula is Associate 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 for the Humanities at University of Pittsburgh, USA.

• Introduction 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); 2. ‘I Felt a Rage Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Felt’: Anger, Ethics, and the Post #MeToo True Crime Documentary; 3. “What You Did is Not Okay”: The Emotional Truth Behind American Vandal’s Absurdity Part II: Expanding Genres, Crossing Platforms 4. Girl Boss Grifters: True Con Programming, Gender, and Televisual Critique in Late Capitalism; 5. The Scene of the Crime: The Pragmatics of Investigative Structure, Evidence, and Exposition Across Genres in Ghost Adventures: Horror at Joe Exotic Zoo; 6. Cuban True Crime at Prime Time: The Case of Tras la huella; 7. Depicting a 21st Century Crime Family: The Murdaugh Multiverse 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); 9. Don’t F*ck with True Crime Fans in the Narrative: Ethics and the Viewer-as Subject in True Crime Documentaries; 10. ‘From Devour to Abhor’: True Crime Television Viewers and Nonviewers Part IV: True Crime Media and Celebrity Culture 11. ‘Oh that Pesky DNA!’: Keith Morrison, Dateline, and True Crime Celebrity; 12. ‘In Plain Sight:’: British Television Exposés of Savile, Brand, and Harris; 13. Built on the Bodies of Women: The Black Dahlia Murder, Celebrity Corpses, and True Crime Media; 14. 'The Photograph is Handsome, as is the Boy’: The ‘Hot Felony’ of Luigi Mangione; Index