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The Mediatization of the O.J. Simpson Case: From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation
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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
mediatization; reality tv; criminal proceedings; legal proceedings; media; commercialization; voyeurism
Classification
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Free Keywords
O.J. Simpson; Court TV; Adaptation; Media; America; Media Theory; Cultural Studies; Media Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
270 p.
Series
Edition Medienwissenschaft, 102
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839466247
ISSN
2702-8984
ISBN
978-3-8394-6624-7
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed