B Block Criminology - Today we'll start our look at gender connected to True Crime. In Gender, Youth, Crime and Justice Loraine Gelsthorpe and Gilly Sharpe claim that
"recurring moral panics regarding girls’ behaviour, seem to have shifted their focus in recent years – from girls’ sexuality and ‘status’ offending, to their apparently increasing violence and alcohol use – and dwell on the resultant punitive turn towards girls and young women".
This turn towards vilifying young female crime can also be seen in crime media. Today we'll look at the portrayal of women perpetrators in True Crime (remember the audience for True Crime) the Madonna-Whore complex in crime media which is most clearly covered through the topic of rape (think Law & Order: SVU) and murder. This complex refers to a dualism in Western patriarchal discourse, which seeks to explain the behavior of women and the desires of men. On one hand, women are rewarded for being the sexual play objects of men (i.e., whores), and on the other hand, women are given clear messages that true grace only derives from marital chastity (i.e., Madonna). We'll see how women are portrayed as victims and as perpetrators in crime media and see if the Madonna-Whore complex applies.
To do this we'll watch "My Mother's Sins" which deals with Diane Downs and then after we'll look at the DVD "Mothers Who Kill" which deals with Susan Smith, Andrea Yates and Marylin Lemack.
Using today's videos to help (along with your understanding of demographics and psychographics) Why do you think True Crime is such a popular content area/genre in mass media and what are the potential effects of consuming it? Are the voyeurisms of consuming the True Crime genre of media an example of curiosity or exploitation? Does it teach? Does it normalize? Does it Rationalize? Does it Trivialize?
Popularity...
TV Insider (article) Why Viewers Love True-Crime Shows
Psychology Today (article) The Guilty Pleasure of True Crime TV True crime TV is addictive to viewers.
Psychology Today (article) The Guilty Pleasure of True Crime TV True crime TV is addictive to viewers.
Real Clear Life (article) The Current State of True Crime TV
Time Magazine (article) "Murder Shows—The New Soap Operas for Women?" and "Why We Are Drawn to True Crime Shows?"
Washington Post (article) "My Favorite Murder’ and the growing acceptance of true-crime entertainment" and the My Favorite Murder Instagram site
Entertainment Weekly (article) "Confessions of a Court TV Addict"
New York Times (article) "Is True Crime as Entertainment Morally Defensible?"
Globe and Mail (article) "Our addiction to true crime has a human cost"
CBS News This morning (article) "Why women are fueling the popularity of true crime podcasts"
The Guardian (article) "Serial thrillers: why true crime is popular culture's most wanted"
Quartz (article) How “true crime” went from guilty pleasure to high culture
The Atlantic (article) The New True Crime
Entertainment Weekly (article) "Confessions of a Court TV Addict"
New York Times (article) "Is True Crime as Entertainment Morally Defensible?"
Globe and Mail (article) "Our addiction to true crime has a human cost"
CBS News This morning (article) "Why women are fueling the popularity of true crime podcasts"
The Guardian (article) "Serial thrillers: why true crime is popular culture's most wanted"
Quartz (article) How “true crime” went from guilty pleasure to high culture
The Atlantic (article) The New True Crime
Then effects...
Vulture (article) "The Ethical Dilemma of Highbrow True Crime"
A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll continue our weather report/newscast project in the learning commons/library. Check the blog for sites to help. When you are filming the forecast, the green screen is ready for you in the classroom (#115)…please remember, for the green screen, don't wear green.
Don't forget
How to apply a green screen filter and Teleprompter (iPhone app or Android app) or Veescope (iPhone app)
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