Episode 1: Welcome to Murder Media

 

Welcome to The Murder Media Podcast! This week Stella introduces the podcast, the project and has a chat about true crime in its forms across screen media. From the execution sermons of the 17^th century, to the crime and makeup trend on YouTube, this week’s episode begins to unpack the varying forms of Murder Media.

 

Follow The Murder Media Project on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, or email directly at murdermedia81@gmail.com, or visit the website https://murdermedia81.wordpress.com/

 

Sources:

 

Gaynor, S.M. (2022). Rethinking Horror in the New Economies of Television. Palgrave MacMillan

 

Gaynor, S.M. (2022). ‘Better the Devil You Know: Nostalgia for the Captured Killer in Netflix’s Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes,’ in Robinson, B. A, B., & Daigle, C. (eds). Serial Killers in Contemporary Television: Familiar Monsters in Post-9/11 Culture. Routledge, pp. 135-153.

 

Gaynor, S.M. (2023). “What Else Can I Add?”: Inverting the Narrative through Female Perspectives in Falling For A Killer, My Favorite Murder, and Murder, Mystery & Makeup, in Larke-Walsh, G. S. (ed). True Crime in American Media. Routledge, pp. 180-195.

 

Gaynor, S.M. (2023). “Bones are life!”: True Crime Podcasting, self-promotion and the vernaculars of Instagram with Cult Liter,’ Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, Vol 22(1), pp. 1-16

 

Murley, J. (2009). The Rise of True Crime: 20^th Century Murder and American Popular Culture. Praeger Publishers.

 

Punnett, I, C. (2018). Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives: A Textual Analysis. Routledge.

 

Seay, S. (2009). Hanging Between Heaven and Earth: Capital Crime, Execution Preaching, and Theology in Early New England. Northern Illinois University Press

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