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Televising True Crime in the Digital Age: Critical Feminist Perspectives

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Televising True Crime in the Digital Age: Critical Feminist Perspectives

Author: Erin A. Meyers; Anna Froula; Tanya Horeck; Melissa Lenos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032758206
Published In: July 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This collection offers a critical and feminist media scholarship approach to the ongoing 21st century true crime media boom.

Including contributions from a range of media scholars with diverse areas of expertise and interest, Televising True Crime features essays that analyze the intersections between and across streaming programs, traditional television, and podcasts, while also exploring the ethics and audiences of true crime, narrative and affect, and genre. Each section presents several essays addressing broad topics from divergent theoretical and methodological approaches but sharing an underlying critical feminist approach to media culture.

This multidisciplinary volume will interest students and researchers of media studies, cultural studies, television studies, journalism, critical feminism, true crime genre, documentary studies, platform studies and gender studies.

Introduction

Erin Meyers, Anna Froula, Tanya Horeck & Melissa Lenos

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)

Amber Hardiman

2. ‘I Felt a Rage Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Felt’: Anger, Ethics, and the Post #MeToo True Crime Documentary

Simon Hobbs and Megan Hoffman

3. “What You Did is Not Okay”: The Emotional Truth Behind American Vandal’s Absurdity

Max Dosser

Part II: Expanding Genres, Crossing Platforms

4. Girl Boss Grifters: True Con Programming, Gender, and Televisual Critique in Late Capitalism

Jorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard

5. The Scene of the Crime: The Pragmatics of Investigative Structure, Evidence, and Exposition Across Genres in Ghost Adventures: Horror at Joe Exotic Zoo

Matt Boyd Smith

6. Cuban True Crime at Prime Time: The Case of Tras la huella

Carlos Uxó

7. Depicting a 21st Century Crime Family: The Murdaugh Multiverse

Amanda Konkle

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)

Su Holmes and Claire Hines

9. Don’t F*ck with True Crime Fans in the Narrative: Ethics and the Viewer-as Subject in True Crime Documentaries

Bethann Jones

10. ‘From Devour to Abhor’: True Crime Television Viewers and Nonviewers

Amanda Keeler and Kathleen Battles