Crime and Media (Forschung)

Eamonn Carrabine: Crime, Culture and the Media. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity 2008. Verlagsanzeige: “In this innovative and accessible new book, Eamonn Carrabine carefully untangles these debates, and grapples with the powerful dynamics of fear and desire that underlie our obsession with crime. Chapter-by-chapter the book introduces the different ways in which relationships between crime and the media have been understood, including classic debates about the media’s effects, news production, and moral panics, as well as more cutting-edge studies of the representation of crime in the contemporary media”.

Ian Marsh and Gaynor Melville: Crime, Justice and the Media. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2009. Verlagsanzeige: “Crime, Justice and the Media examines and analyzes the relationship between the media and crime, criminals and the criminal justice system. It considers how crime and criminals have been portrayed by the media over time, applying different theoretical perspectives on the media to the way crime, criminals and justice is reported. It focuses on a number of specific areas of crime and criminal justice in terms of media representation – these areas include moral panics over specific crimes and criminals (including youth crime, cybercrime and paedophilia), the media portrayal of victims of crime and criminals and the way the media represent criminal justice agencies”.

Jean Murley: The Rise of True Crime: 20th-century Murder and American Popular Culture, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2008. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “Through the suggestion that certain kinds of killers are “monstrous” or outside the realm of human morality, and through the perpetuation of the “stranger-danger” idea, the true crime aesthetic has both responded to and fostered our culture’s fears. True crime is also the site of a dramatic confrontation with the concept of evil, and one of the few places in American public discourse where moral terms are used without any irony, and where notions and definitions of evil are presented without ambiguity. When seen within its historical context, true crime emerges as a vibrant and meaningful strand of popular culture, one that is unfortunately devalued as lurid and meaningless ‘pulp.’ The Rise of True Crime examines the various genres of true crime using the most popular and well-known examples. And despite its examination of some of the potentially negative results of the genre, it is written for people who read and enjoy true crime, and wish to learn more about it.”
“JEAN MURLEY is Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has published a review of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture for the Journal of Popular Culture, and an essay entitled “Ordinary Sinners and Moral Aliens: The Murder Narratives of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe” in Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2003), an anthology on contemporary understandings of evil.”

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