Charles R. Acland teaches cultural and media studies in the Faculty of General Studies at the University of Calgary, where he is an assistant professor.

• Part 1: Youth -- Youth in Crisis -- The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility -- Part 2: Murder -- News and Sensations: On Images of Crime -- "Tall, Dark, and Lethal": The Discourses of Sexual Transgression in the Preppy Murder -- The Subject in Crime: Confessions as a Site of "Self-Evidence" -- Part 3: Spectacle -- Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show -- The Body by the River: Youth Movies and the Adult Gaze -- The Spectacle of Wasted Youth: A Felt Crisis in the United States

Charles R. Acland teaches cultural and media studies in the Faculty of General Studies at the University of Calgary, where he is an assistant professor.

• Part 1: Youth -- Youth in Crisis -- The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility -- Part 2: Murder -- News and Sensations: On Images of Crime -- "Tall, Dark, and Lethal": The Discourses of Sexual Transgression in the Preppy Murder -- The Subject in Crime: Confessions as a Site of "Self-Evidence" -- Part 3: Spectacle -- Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show -- The Body by the River: Youth Movies and the Adult Gaze -- The Spectacle of Wasted Youth: A Felt Crisis in the United States

Charles R. Acland teaches cultural and media studies in the Faculty of General Studies at the University of Calgary, where he is an assistant professor.

• Part 1: Youth -- Youth in Crisis -- The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility -- Part 2: Murder -- News and Sensations: On Images of Crime -- "Tall, Dark, and Lethal": The Discourses of Sexual Transgression in the Preppy Murder -- The Subject in Crime: Confessions as a Site of "Self-Evidence" -- Part 3: Spectacle -- Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show -- The Body by the River: Youth Movies and the Adult Gaze -- The Spectacle of Wasted Youth: A Felt Crisis in the United States