Staci Stutsman
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"enjoying" crime entertainment
Thanks for your reply! I'm especially interested in your last remarks--those around the stigma related to enjoying crime entertainment. It's exactly that sort of enjoyment that I want to unpack. When I teach true crime in my courses, we always t ... -
Re: Armchair Jurors
distrust in legal systems and police
Thanks for your post, George! It's interesting to me that narratives such as Making a Murder and Serial are so popular at this historical moment, as I think it points to an anxiety keenly felt in today's society. At a moment in which the public ... -
quality and gender
Great post, Amanda! I, too, am interested in discourses of quality around these perpetrators (who are usually men). It's notabe to see where the versions of the parallel texts are cropping up. For instance, Kathie Durst's story is in the work at ... -
I agree
Yes, I definitely agree that the conversation needs to shift. I was not intending to re-entrench it or assert that they were "less than." Rather, I was just pointing to that discourse. I, too, will continue to look forward to more of the "i ... -
public/private
Interesting post, Leslie. I especially like that you gesture toward the complicated relationship between public and private in true crime. In many ways, true crime feels like it wants to push past the public facades and facts to get to a certain private t ... -
Immersion and distance
Great post! I'm glad that you wrote here about the dance scene. It's such a key moment in the series. I like it so much because it seems to be a moment in which the creators and Maslany are putting all of their cards on the table. It seems like ... -
historicizing the star performing an actor/actress
Great post and good follow-up comments, Tanya! I like what you're calling attention to here with your question about ScarJo's performativity. I feel like this sort of star performativity is not necessarily tied to this contemporary moment. We ca ... -
re: self-reflexive hollywood
Thanks for both of your follow-up comments. I wouldn't want to rush to say that, as James suggests, that there's something in the past 15 years that 'demands self-reflexive performances more so than other times.' Rather, I would prefer ... -
great idea!
Thanks for sharing! I have always wanted to teach the entirety of a series but have yet to have the chance. When I first read your post, I thought you meant that you had spent an entire semester on-just- Orphan Black, which I thought would have been fanta ... -
on Homeland
Yeah- Homeland would work really well for that! When I taught Homeland, I taught the first two episodes of the first season in order to discuss Othering in the media. The second episode ends with Brody praying in the garage. It was quite interesting to se ...