The mediatization of the O.J. Simpson case : from reality television to filmic adaptation /
"F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: 'Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.' In the 1990s, nobody fell deeper than O.J. Simpson. Once considered a national treasure, the athlete was accused of brutally slaying his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman on June 12,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript Verlag,
2023.
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| Series: | Media studies (Transcript (Firm)) ;
v. 102. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: 'Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.' In the 1990s, nobody fell deeper than O.J. Simpson. Once considered a national treasure, the athlete was accused of brutally slaying his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994. Within days, the media and public developed an unprecedented obsession with the story, turning a murder investigation and trial into a sensationalized reality show. Tatjana Neubauer examines the mediatization, deliberate manipulation, and the simplification of popular criminal trials for profit on television. She shows that TV conflated legal proceedings into entertainment programming by commodifying events, people, and places"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783839466247 3839466245 9783732866243 3732866246 |