Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins: Voicing the Less Dead uses criminal cases, news stories, and media analysis from around the globe to reflect upon the thousands and thousands of missing and murdered individuals from marginalized communities. Contributors ask readers to consider: How do we see these human beings compared to others, and how are they viewed by law enforcement and government officials? These vulnerable populations are often rendered invisible, so how do the media decide what story is told to the public and which one is neglected? Drawing on Steven Egger’s concept of the ‘less dead,’ this collection provides an interdisciplinary, global perspective on how vulnerable groups are erased and demonstrates ways their stories can be made visible.
Focusing on minoritized and marginalized groups around the world, this interdisciplinary project aims to shed light on the misinterpretation, misrepresentation, and erasure of the lives and deaths of the most vulnerable members of society.
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Focusing on minoritized and marginalized groups around the world, this interdisciplinary project aims to shed light on the misinterpretation, misrepresentation, and erasure of the lives and deaths of the most vulnerable members of society.
Introduction by Francesca Borrione and Heather J. Macpherson
Chapter 1: Visible But Voiceless: The Canonical Five Victims of Jack the
Ripper and Liminal Spaces of Victimhood by Rebecca Frost
Chapter 2: Suicides That Matter: National News Media Construction of Youth
Bullycides by Robert A. Brooks and Jeffrey W. Cohen
Chapter 3: From the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Ethan Browns Murder in The
Bayou and the Invisibilization of the Jeff Davis 8 by Marissa A. Zerangue
Chapter 4: Were Missing the Point: The Impossible Victim, the Less Dead, and
the Search for Jermain Charlo by Alisha Grech
Chapter 5: The Grim Sleeper Films and the Humanization of the Women of South
Central L.A. by Francesca Borrione
Chapter 6: Tell Me Where You AreThis Happens Everywhere: Representations of
Femicide in Natalia Beristáins 2022 Film Noise by Heather J. Macpherson
Chapter 7: Transgressions of the Less Dead: Necropolitics of the Subaltern in
South Indian Cinema by Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K Suresh
Chapter 8: Pre-trial Treatment of Girl Children by the Police: Three Cases
from Pakistan by Abdullah Khoso
Francesca Borrione is assistant professor in media studies at the University of Virginia.
Heather J. Macpherson teaches writing at Clark University, Worcester.
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