Coming Soon Televising True Crime in the Digital Age: Critical Feminist Perspectives

Criminal Law

Televising True Crime in the Digital Age: Critical Feminist Perspectives

Edited by Erin A. Meyers · Anna Froula · Tanya Horeck · Melissa Lenos
Coming Soon Routledge Available July 2026

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ISBN-13
9781032758206
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
July 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

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

Part IV: True Crime Media and Celebrity Culture
11. ‘Oh that Pesky DNA!’: Keith Morrison, Dateline, and True Crime Celebrity
Erin Meyers
12. ‘In Plain Sight:’: British Television Exposés of Savile, Brand, and Harris
Ruth Deller
13. Built on the Bodies of Women: The Black Dahlia Murder, Celebrity Corpses, and True Crime Media
Dahlia Schweitzer
14. ‘The Photograph is Handsome, as is the Boy’: The ‘Hot Felony’ of Luigi Mangione
Tanya Horeck

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