CRIM3306 Netflix and Kill: Encountering Crime Through the Media

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Overview

This topic draws on popular culture and the meditated nature of our contemporary digital world to explore how we encounter crime. The topic engages with a vast array of phenomenon (e.g. news media, film, documentary, television shows and podcasts) to explore the ways that crime is packaged, represented and consumed. This topic prompts students to appreciate that sensory exposure to crime permeates our lives. It seeks to empower students to appreciate the complexities and contradictions at play when they encounter crime and to critically consider crime narratives when engaging with the world they live in.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

Introduce students to the different ways that crime pervades our lives (on the news, in books, on Social Media and on the screen as entertainment etc.)
Provide a conceptual overview of the complex ways that we consume crime in society (and how this has evolved in the past 100 odd years)
To prompt students to explore why - despite being fearful of/disturbed by crime - we find it alluring and crave vicarious exposure to it

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Netflix and Kill: Encountering Crime Through the Media