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Justice on Demand - True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era (Hardcover)
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Justice on Demand - True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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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 ""desktop detective"" or
""internet sleuth."" While Facebook and Twitter have re-invigorated
the notion of the armchair detective, Horeck questions the rhetoric
of interactivity surrounding true crime formats and points to the
precarity of justice in the social media era. In a cultural moment
in which user-generated videos of real-life violence surface with
an alarming frequency, Justice on Demand addresses what is at stake
in the cultural investment in true crime as packaged mainstream
entertainment. Paying close attention to the gendered and
racialized dimensions of true crime media, Horeck examines objects
that are not commonly considered ""true crime,"" including the
subgenre of closed-circuit television (CCTV) elevator assault
videos and the popularity of trailers for true crime documentaries
on YouTube. By analyzing a range of intriguing case studies, Horeck
explores how the audience is affectively imagined, addressed, and
commodified by contemporary true crime in an ""on demand""
mediascape. As a fresh investigation of how contemporary variations
of true crime raise significant ethical questions regarding what it
means to watch, listen, and ""witness"" in a digital era of
accessibility, immediacy, and instantaneity, Justice on Demand will
be of interest to film, media, and digital studies scholars.
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