True Crime
Further Studies
About the genre
“I think this explosion is due in part to the aesthetics of true crime storytelling: Crime stories, especially ones that involve a trial, have perfect dramatic structure—there is a clear beginning, middle, and end to the story,” Berlinger says. “Something horrific occurs, there is a search for the guilty person, a conclusion to the legal proceeding, and then hopefully justice is served.”
Topics
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote discusses writing IN COLD BLOOD in 1968 interview.
From HISTORIC FILMS ARCHIVE
The Staircase
Murder Ballads
(LAV ORDENTLIG LINKSAMLING)
Neko Case - Deep Red Bells (mord fra ofrets synsvinkel - feminist reading?
https://genius.com/Neko-case-deep-red-bells-lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScT9eo5cljk&ab_channel=SarahN.Dipity
En klassiker – Tom Dooley – (diakron og synkron vinkel? – borgerkrigsvinkel?)
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Dooley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_ballad
Kingston Trio-version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zdE8bliGI&ab_channel=ConnorJones
Udsat for dansk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzmHjZBV31c&ab_channel=lilleskov52
- Og der er jo tonsvis af gamle og nye murder ballads. Så elever kan perspektivere til det og diskutere, hvilken fokus der er i dramatiseringen.
Fra British Library
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/broadside-account-of-a-cruel-and-inhuman-murder
Om sexistisk brug af “shrew”.
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/broadside-ballad-on-the-cruel-shrew
Måske henvisning til Stagger Lee – Se beskrivelse her
http://www.planetslade.com/stagger-lee.html
James Brown-version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEOw4lsFoW8
Samuel Jackson-version fra Black Snake Moan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0fEWekE2P0
Nick Caves version (trigger warning! NSFW!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbe5RERDh4k
Oprindelige murder ballads som en art journalistik.
http://www.planetslade.com/murder.html
Hør Dolly Parton’s America, afsnit “Sad Ass Songs”, fra minut 21:00 til 27:00.
Texts
Articles
“The incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist” by Rich Schapiro, WIRED: 27 December, 2010
“Murder by Craigslist” by Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic: Aug. 2013
“What made this university researcher snap?” by Amy Wallace, Wired: February, 2011
“What If Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop?” the New Yorker: Sept. 2019
“Rebecca Coriam: lost at sea” by Jon Ronson, the Guardian: Nov. 2011
“The murderers next door” by Jenny Kleeman, the Guardian: 15 Oct. 2014
Documentaries
The Act of Killing, dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, Final Cut for Real: 2012
The Staircase, dir. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Netflix: 2018
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, dir. Andrew Jarecki, HBO documentaries: 2015
Capturing the Friedmans, dir. Andrew Jarecki, HBO documentaries: 2003
O. J.: Made in America dir. Ezra Edelman, ESPN Films: 2016
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, dir. Alex Gibney, HBO documentaries: 2019
Mommy Dead and Dearest, dir. Erin Lee Carr, HBO documentaries: 2017
Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist, dir. Trey Borzillieri and Barbara Schroeder, Duplass Brothers Productions: 2018
Making a Murderer, dir. Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Synthesis Films: 2015
Tickled dir. David Farrier and Dylan Reeve, A Ticklish Tale, et al.: 2016
Podcasts
Murder and missing persons
Serial (season one) hosted by Sarah Koenig, This American Life, 3 Oct. 2014
The Assassination, BBC World Service, 27 Dec. 2017
Someone Knows Something (season 1), CBC Podcasts, 14. nov. 2016
The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson, Audible, 11 April 2019
Sexual assault and #metoo
Believed, NPR, 22 Oct. 2018
The Catch and Kill Podcast by Ronan Farrow, Pineapple Street Studios, 26 Nov. 2019
Terrorism
Caliphate by Rukmini Callimachi, the New York Times, 18 April 2018
Criminal, Radiotopia
Economic crime and fraud
Gangster Capitalism, C13Originals, 14 May 2019
The Dream (season 1), Little Everywhere & Stitcher, 24 Spet. 2018
The Dropout, ABC News Nightline & ABC Radio, 15 Janu. 2019
Slow Burn (season one – about Watergate) hosted by Leon Neyfakh, Slate, 28 Nov. 2017
Systemic issues (racism, criminal justice system, etc.)
In the Dark (season 1 or 2), APM Reports, 7 Sept. 2016
The Queen, Slate, 13 May 2019
Serial-creators Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder thought in terms of fiction when producing the podcast. According to Ira Glass (creator and host of This American Life), in creating Serial:
“[Koenig and Snyder wondered whether they could] do what HBO does and what Netflix does. Can you create a world where there’s a bunch of characters at the beginning, and you’d get people hooked on the characters, and the situation, and the world of it, and then keep them listening if it’s nonfiction. Could you do that with journalism.” Turns out they could. Very successfully, too.”
