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The Murder Media Podcast is hosted by Dr Stella Marie Gaynor, Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication. The podcast is part of a broader Murder Media project which analyzes and explores true crime content across media. Each week we’ll examine and discuss various types of true crime, from TV to film, podcast to graphic novel.
murdermedia81 hosts The Murder Media Podcast, a education show with 25 episodes published.
This episode, Stella is joined again by Dr Shellie McMurdo for a chat about how we remember the Columbine High School Massacre, and its representation in Zero Day and American Horror Story. We also turn to Cloverfield an
This week, join Stella as she chats with the legendary Prof Jean Murley, author of the foundational book 'The Rise of True Crime.' Regular listeners will know Stella always turns to Murley's book for quotes, definitions,
Join Stella for a wander through Waco, Texas: a horrific shootout, a 51 day standoff, and a terrible fire, as seen in a Netflix documentary and a genre mash-up from from Kevin Smith. We'll explore what happened at Mount
Join Stella this week for a chat about a troubling topic - the representation of school shooters in entertainment media. With a focus on Columbine and two films which retell the story of this case, this episode examines
Welcome back to season three of the Murder Media Podcast! This week Stella starts to cover true crime media texts that got taken out of the final book plan, with a look at Monster: the Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Examining the
Join Stella and Shellie for this extra bonus episode where we review the recent addition to the Monster series on Netflix: The Ed Gein Story. Did we love it? Yes! And no, this is not another piece of content that tells y
This week Stella examines a new Silly Shitbag Sutcliffe media text, Hunting the Yorkshire Ripper, from Prime Video. This two parter focusses more on the hoax tapes, the impact the actions of this idiot had on the investi
Bloody Hell! This week Stella adapts her paper from the Blood, Myth and Media Symposium, for a chat about the use of blood as narrative device in Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (Netflix), and The Staircase (
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This week, join Stella as she dips more toes into the overlap between true crime and horror, with a look at ghosthunting on the trail of serial killers. Stella takes a close look at her new obsession, The Paranormal File
And we're back, with a look a two media texts, twenty years apart, which tell the story of a bunch of teenage vampires turned murderers. Examining the 2002 film The Vampire Clan, and an episode from Stella's favourite Yo
This week, Stella finally reflects on The Murder Media Symposium and her trials and tribulations at the hotel. Then the episode gets into the serial killer biopic: films which tell the life stories of real world murderer
Come and join The Murder Media Cult - we'll need all your money, your house, but we promise some lovely shoes. This week, Stella is joined again by Shellie McMurdo for a chat about cults on screen. Shellie gets to talk a
This week, Stella explores the conditions of YouTube and how that impacts the true crime and makeup videos from the legendary Brittany Vaughn. Unpacking Vaughn's video on Peter Sutcliffe, Stella explains how the politica
The Murder Media podcast is back! After a break for teaching and then Xmas, NYE, and marking, Stella is back to update on the book proposal progress, and to get cracking on some more overthinking and analysing true crime
We made it! We made it to the end of the first series of The Murder Media Podcast. Stella has to go off and be a lecturer now, so, the podcast has to take a break. In this episode, Stella takes a look at how the actual b
This week Stella has a good long chat with Dr Tom Watson about a case that they both remember and both know in lots of detail: The West Memphis Three and their fight to get out of prison after being wrongly convicted of
This week, Stella visits one of her fabourite YouTubers, Glam & Gore, and explores a video from the 2019 Halloween series where Mykie and friends stayed at various reportedly haunted locations. Merging historical true cr
This week Stella tackles true crime comics: graphic novels that tell tales of murder. First looking at Maids by Katie Skelly, the story of the Papin sisters and their brutal murder of their employers; then The Butcher of
This week, Stella chats about two of her favourite podcasts: All Killa No Filla and The Last Podcast on the Left, and picking up from episode 5, their approaches to the Jeffrey Dahmer story. Told via the skills of stand
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