Saving Grace: mediating Victorian true crime in the age of #MeToo

This chapter critiques contemporary “herstory” re-framings of the Grace Marks murder trial (1843) in two true crime adaptations that have been consumed within the zeitgeist of the #Me Too movement: Sarah Polley and Mary Harron’s miniseries Alias Grace (2017) and an episode on Grace Marks in Lucy Wor...

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Autor principal: MacDonell, Jennifer (Autor)
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Publicado: 2025
En: True crime and women
Año: 2025, Páginas: 14-33
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