True Crime in American Media

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.

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

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Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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

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

3. True Crime Adaptations and the Many Faces of the Atlanta Monster

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

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

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

7. 'Exquisitely Criminal Production Music': Television, Ethics and the Sound of True Crime

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

9. My Friend Dahmer: A GraphicNarrative Search for the Origins of Evil

10. Forensic Fandom: True Crime, Citizen Investigation and Social Media

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