Documentary Ethics, Para-Judicial Fantasies, and the Transgressive Desires of Lynn Crosbie’s Paul’s Case

James Hahn

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Vol. 47 No. 2 (2022): Special Section: Black Lives Matter

Documentary Ethics, Para-Judicial Fantasies, and the Transgressive Desires of Lynn Crosbie’s Paul’s Case

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Submitted: November 8, 2023
Published: 2023-11-16

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Bruzzi, Stella. “Narrative, ‘Evidence Vérité,’ and the Different Truths of the Modern Trial Documentary.” Documentary across Disciplines, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, MIT P, 2016, pp. 253-77.
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How to Cite

Hahn, J. (2023). Documentary Ethics, Para-Judicial Fantasies, and the Transgressive Desires of Lynn Crosbie’s Paul’s Case. Studies in Canadian Literature, 47(2), 237–254. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/33690

Copyright Notice

[1] Blatchford, Christie. Life Sentence: Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting — Or, How I Fell out of Love with the Canadian Justice System (Especially Judges). E-book ed., Penguin Random House, 1996.

[2] Bruzzi, Stella. “Narrative, ‘Evidence Vérité,’ and the Different Truths of the Modern Trial Documentary.” Documentary across Disciplines, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, MIT P, 2016, pp. 253-77.

[3] Canada. “Victim Privacy and the Open Court Principle.” Government of Canada, www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/cj-jp/victim/rr03_vic1/p7_2.html.

[4] CBC. “Bernardo Tapes Destroyed, Says Lawyer for Victims’ Families.” CBC News, 21 Dec. 2001, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bernardo-tapes-destroyed-says-lawyer-for-victims-families-1.281265.

[5] Champagne, Roland A. The Ethics of Reading According to Emmanuel Levinas. Rodopi, 1998.

[6] Crosbie, Lynn. Paul’s Case: The Kingston Letters. Insomniac, 1997.

[7] Crosbie, Lynn. “A Shapeshifter: Eva Tihanyi Speaks with Lynn Crosbie.” Books in Canada, vol. 27, no. 2, 1998. Proquest, www.proquest.com/docview/215186290?OpenUrlRefId=info:xri/sid:primo&accountid=14771.

[8] Crosthwaite, Paul. Introduction. Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk, edited by Paul Crosthwaite, Routledge, 2011, pp. 1-11.

[9] Davey, Frank. Karla’s Web: A Cultural Investigation of the Mahaffy-French Murders. Revised ed., Penguin, 1995.

[10] Edwards, Justin D. Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature. U of Alberta P, 2005.

[11] Hahn, James. “‘It Should Never Have Occurred’: Documentary Appropriation, Resistant Reading, and the Ethical Ambivalence of McAlmon’s Chinese Opera.” Canadian Literature, no. 237, Spring 2019, pp. 85-100.

[12] Huffman, Kerri. “Lynn’s Case.” Taddle Creek, no. 1, 1997, www.taddlecreekmag.com/lynns-case.

[13] Jones, Manina. That Art of Difference: “Documentary-Collage” and English-Canadian Writing. U of Toronto P, 1993.

[14] Kamboureli, Smaro. “The Limits of the Ethical Turn: Troping towards the Other, Yann Martel, and Self.” University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 76, no. 3, 2007, pp. 937-61.

[15] Little, Janine Mary. “Jill Meagher CCTV: Gothic Tendencies in Narratives of Violence and Gender Justice.” Feminist Media Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, 2015, pp. 397-410.

[16] Makin, Kirk. Introduction. Williams, pp. vii-xi.

[17] Nichols, Bill. Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary. U of California P, 2016.

[18] Reinhardt, Mark. “Painful Photographs: From the Ethics of Spectatorship to Visual Politics.” Ethics and Images of Pain, edited by Asbjørn Grønstad and Henrik Gustafsson, Routledge, 2012, pp. 33-56.

[19] Scobie, Stephen. Signature Event Cantext. NeWest Press, 1989.

[20] Scott, Shelly. “Violent Women: The Bernardo/Homolka Case in Famous by Carol Bolt and Paul’s Case by Lynn Crosbie.” Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 22, no. 1, 2001, pp. 58-71. Erudit Open Access Journals, journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/tric/article/view/7019/8078.

[21] Spargo, Clifton R. Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death. Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.

[22] Stoneman, Ethan. “Reel Cruelty: Voyeurism and Extra-Judicial Punishment in True-Crime Documentaries.” Crime Media Culture, vol. 17, no. 3, 2020, pp. 401-19.

[23] Strange, Carolyn. The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History. U of Toronto P, 2020.

[24] “A Touch of Brimstone.” Directed by James Hill, performance by Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, The Avengers, season 4, episode 21, ABC Television, 1966.

[25] Williams, Stephen. Invisible Darkness: The Strange Case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. 1996. Bantam, 1998.