Justice on Demand
Justice on Demand: True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era offers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Author Tanya Horeck takes this question further: Why is true crime thought to be such a good vehicle for the new modes of viewer/listener engagement favored by online streaming and consumption in the twenty-first century? Examining a range of audiovisual true crime texts, from podcasts such as Serial and My Favorite Murder to long-form crime documentaries such as The Jinx and Making a Murderer, Horeck considers the extent to which the true crime genre has come to epitomize participatory media culture where the listener/viewer acts as a "e;desktop detective"e; or "e;internet sleuth. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Wayne State University Press
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 0
- ISBN
- 9780814340646
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019