American Murder: La - Famiglia Della Porta Accanto

The Digital Facade: Domestic Violence and the Ethics of Surveillance in American Murder: The Family Next Door I. Introduction

Discuss director Jenny Popplewell’s choice to use no talking-head interviews, relying solely on archival footage: social media posts, text messages, body-cam footage, and interrogation tapes. American Murder: La famiglia della porta accanto

Start with the chilling realization that behind a perfect social media feed can lie a deadly reality. The Digital Facade: Domestic Violence and the Ethics

Analyze how Shanann’s prolific Facebook presence was used to build a "happy family" narrative, which contrasts sharply with her private, desperate text messages to friends about her marriage's collapse. III. Psychological and Criminological Analysis Analyze how Shanann’s prolific Facebook presence was used

Briefly summarize the 2018 Watts family murders in Frederick, Colorado.

This paper argues that American Murder: The Family Next Door redefines the true-crime genre by using raw digital footprints to expose the disparity between online "performance" and private domestic violence, while simultaneously challenging the ethics of victim-blaming in the digital age. II. Documentary Methodology: The Power of Archival Footage