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The Mediatization of the O.J. Simpson Case : From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation / Tatjana Neubauer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neubauer, Tatjana, Author.
- Series:
- Edition Medienwissenschaft ; 102
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 In Pursuit of Entertainment: The Beginnings of a Megaspectacle
- 2 The People v. O.J Simpson: Celebrification on Reality Television
- 3 The Court and the Camera: Theatricality of the Law
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9783839466247
- 3839466245
- OCLC:
- 1371574123
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