TY - JOUR
T1 - The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime
AU - Gemzøe, Lynge Stegger
PY - 2021/7/29
Y1 - 2021/7/29
N2 - This article investigates the dramaturgical, aesthetical and ethical implications of making television on the back of a high-profile, internationally appealing and very recent murder case: the Kim Wall murder. During a trip in his self-made submarine, Peter Madsen, a known amateur space rocket and submarine builder, abused and murdered Kim Wall, a young Swedish journalist, who was supposed to do an interview with him. Less than three years later, a range of true crime productions had been made about the case, and this article analyses three of them. Preliminary findings suggest that meta-communication is highly important in high-profile true crime productions such as these, and that creators have to walk a thin line.
AB - This article investigates the dramaturgical, aesthetical and ethical implications of making television on the back of a high-profile, internationally appealing and very recent murder case: the Kim Wall murder. During a trip in his self-made submarine, Peter Madsen, a known amateur space rocket and submarine builder, abused and murdered Kim Wall, a young Swedish journalist, who was supposed to do an interview with him. Less than three years later, a range of true crime productions had been made about the case, and this article analyses three of them. Preliminary findings suggest that meta-communication is highly important in high-profile true crime productions such as these, and that creators have to walk a thin line.
KW - The Investigation
KW - True crime
KW - media ethics
KW - meta-communication
KW - series
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85150801373&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.6092/issn.2421-454X/12483
DO - 10.6092/issn.2421-454X/12483
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2421-454X
VL - 7
SP - 81
EP - 90
JO - SERIES - International journal of TV series narratives
JF - SERIES - International journal of TV series narratives
IS - 1
ER -