Table of Contents

Introduction: The spectacle of Tiger King 1. Captive audiences: quarantining with Tiger King 2. Netflix’s docuseries style: generic chaos and affect in Tiger King 3. #carolebaskinkilledherhusband: the gender politics of Tiger King meme culture 4. Labor, celebrity, and the carnivalesque world of Tiger King 5. "I’m in a cage": a historical perspective on Tiger King’s animals

About the Author

Jaimie Baron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is also the director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos.

Kristen Fuhs is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Woodbury University. She writes about documentary film, the American criminal justice system, and contemporary celebrity, and her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies; the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television; and the Journal of Sport & Social Issues.