True Crime: An Analysis
In this analysis, I take a look at our current True Crime wave by looking at the history of true crime and beginning to think about how we might contextualize and understand our own cultural obsessions. I look at true crime in the 16-18th centuries, True Detective magazines in the 20s and 30s, Truman Capote s In Cold Blood, and the TV shows of the nineties, before looking at today. I try to understand the themes and tropes underlying Serial, Making a Murderer, West Cork, the Teacher s Pet, and the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: https://amzn.to/2ykJe6L Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Credits: Stock footage provided by Videvo, downloaded from https://www.videvo.net Sarah Koening Photo - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Sarah_Koenig%2C_American_journalist_2015.jpg Kenneth C. Zirkel [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] Crypto by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: https://incompetech.com/wordpress/2016/02/crypto/ Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Sources: Ian Case Punnet, Toward a Theory of True Crime Joy Wiltenburg, True Crime: The Origins of Modern Sensationalism, The American Historical Review Constructing Crime: Media, Crime, and Popular Culture Dowler, Ken;Fleming, Thomas;Muzzatti, Stephen L Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Lenika Cruz, The New True Crime, The Atlantic Kelly-Leigh Cooper, Is Our Growing Obsession with True Crime A Problem, BBC https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/west-cork-audible-podcast-review.html https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2018/nov/11/murder-mystery-and-a-media-storm-in-west-cork https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/09/teachers-pet-can-28m-podcast-downloads-change-the-course-of-a-case https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/15/disappearance-madeleine-mccann-netflix-review-moral-failure
