RT Book
T1 Women in true crime media: the spectacle of female victims and perpetrators
A1 Erdman, Jen 1982-
LA English
PP Jefferson, North Carolina
PB McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1808004663
AB Sabella Nitti -- Bonnie Parker -- Elizabeth Short -- Marilyn Sheppard -- Sharon Tate -- Patricia Hearst -- Elizabeth "Liz" Kendall -- Kirsten Costas -- Nicole Brown -- Kathleen Peterson and Teresa Halbach -- Social media crimes.
AB "While many people think true crime is a new phenomenon, Americans have been obsessed with the genre for over a century, and popular culture continuously tries to cash in. The names of infamous serial killers are well-known, but the identities of their often-female victims are frequently lost to history. This text flips the script and focuses on the women to keep their identities known and remembered. This is the first book to examine how popular culture has mistreated women as both perpetrators and victims of crime, covering a hundred-year span from 1920 to 2020. Detailed is popular culture's interest in true crime and how women in true crime documentation have largely been sexualized and victim-blamed over the decades"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN P94.5.W652
SN 9781476681252
K1 Female offenders in mass media
K1 Victims of crimes in mass media
K1 Women : Crimes against : United States
K1 Female offenders : United States
K1 True crime stories : United States : History and criticism
K1 True crime television programs : United States : History and criticism
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
K1 TRUE CRIME / General
K1 Kriminalfall : Medien : Frau : Verbrechensopfer : Täterin : Geschichte 1920-2020