Televising True Crime in the Digital Age: Critical Feminist Perspectives

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.

Erin A. Meyers is Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism and Public Relations, Oakland University, USA.

Anna Froula is Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English, East Carolina University, USA and Founder and Program Director of Veteran to Scholar Boot Camp.

Tanya Horeck is Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies and Director of the Research Centre for Media, Arts & Creative Technologies (MACT) at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK.

Melissa Lenos is Senior Director of Graduate Advising and Engagement at University of Pittsburgh, USA.