Thanks for sharing your experience. I do relate to this curiosity, I hope I didn't sounded like a snob on this post. I am morbidly curious about crime. One of my favorite true crime content is a mini documentary about a hostage situation with an ex-boyfriend (the Eloá case) and how the media downplayed the violence of the situation and portrayed the ex as a sort of "confused and heartbroken young men". I find really interesting on how some podcasts and documentaries can help us see a different angle on the case.
It just clicked to me that true crime or police procedural isn't a niche genre. I guess I'm always trying to understand why something went mainstream.
I too try no to go too tinfoil about this, but considering the reputation of the american intelligent services it isn't too far fetched to thing they have some influence on these questions, they probably do some social engineering. I searched about the McGowan Book, it seems really interesting, I'll definitely put on my list! Thanks comrade!
Where I live people call the cops because the neighbors music is too loud. People involves the police even in the simplest conflicts, they act like rich people nannies.
These are interesting insights! Watching Criminal Minds I got this feeling of "big brain time" that would appeal to a large audience. Vicariously feeling "smart" get people going, I guess. About the first thing you said, "the cultural obssesion with death" that started on the 70s. Do you thing it's connected to the reactionary backlash after the 60s? That got me interested, with you have some recommendations, I'd be thankful.
It's definitely a double-edged sword. Recently, in Brazil, a podcast about a child murder (The Evandro case) got popular and a television series will be made about it. The podcast emphasize all the bad decisions that the police took during the case and the satanic panic that reitereited popular distrust on African rooted religions in the country. That would be a good exemple, I guess. But the sheer amount of content that idealize police action is... weird? frightening?
Thanks for sharing your experience. I do relate to this curiosity, I hope I didn't sounded like a snob on this post. I am morbidly curious about crime. One of my favorite true crime content is a mini documentary about a hostage situation with an ex-boyfriend (the Eloá case) and how the media downplayed the violence of the situation and portrayed the ex as a sort of "confused and heartbroken young men". I find really interesting on how some podcasts and documentaries can help us see a different angle on the case.
It just clicked to me that true crime or police procedural isn't a niche genre. I guess I'm always trying to understand why something went mainstream.