The deceased-accused and the victim as a commodity: Jimmy Savile as a case study to examine the role of real-crime documentary in reproducing violence as entertainment
Menis, Susanna (2021) The deceased-accused and the victim as a commodity: Jimmy Savile as a case study to examine the role of real-crime documentary in reproducing violence as entertainment. In: Mellins, M. and Moore, S. (eds.) Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030837570. (In Press)
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Abstract
Taking a real-crime documentary concerning Jimmy Savile in the UK as a case study, the chapter attempts to make sense of a rather complex social relationship between the media, the public, the victims and the deceased-accused. The discussion questions the social usefulness of aggressive media driven by market targets; it submits that the commercialisation of the victims by these crime documentaries encourage social righteousness and did little to support sex crime victims.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available at the link above. |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Real crime documentary, deceased-accused, victim as a commodity, violence as entertainment, media |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Depositing User: | Susy Menis |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2021 13:37 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:07 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/42970 |
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