The Politics of True Crime : Vulnerability and Documentaries on Murder in Swedish Public Service Radio’s P3 Documentary

• With 600,000 listeners, P3 Documentary is the most popular pod radio format in Sweden—a country of 10 million people. The majority of the documentaries stage crime—most often, famous murder cases. In this chapter, 19 of the programmes on murder are analysed with a focus on the choice of murders, the use of victims, perpetrators, family and experts, the horror genealogy and a dramatic form that has increasingly tightened over the years. Hyvönen et al. analyse how listeners are vulnerable to the circulation, invoking and mobilizing of emotions (Ahmed in The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2012), and they show that the documentaries do significant political work. A politics of mobility is distributed and, in controversial cases on migrants, the pain of others is used in processes of othering that compromise the public service aim of impartiality.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Vulnerability

Politics of emotion

Migration

Public service radio

Pod radio documentary

Crime documentary

Rhetoric

Retorik

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

Media and Communication Studies

Literature

Litteraturvetenskap

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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