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The Mediatization of the O.J. Simpson Case: From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation
[Dissertation]
Abstract 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, th... mehr
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. The author examines the mediatization, deliberate manipulation, and the simplification of popular criminal trials for profit on television. She demonstrates that TV conflated legal proceedings into entertainment programming by commodifying events, people, and places.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Mediatisierung; Reality-TV; Strafprozess; Gerichtsverfahren; Medien; Kommerzialisierung; Voyeurismus
Klassifikation
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
O.J. Simpson; Court TV; Adaptation; Media; America; Media Theory; Cultural Studies; Media Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
270 S.
Schriftenreihe
Edition Medienwissenschaft, 102
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839466247
ISSN
2702-8984
ISBN
978-3-8394-6624-7
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)