O.J. Made In America
O.J. Made in America is an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary or miniseries that details from the birth of fame to the downfall of famed Football player turned celebrity turned social pariah, Orenthal James Simpson or as he is more famously known O.J Simpson. The reason why I chose to analyze this series, is because of the impact that the media had on the trial itself and how it gave the trial a bigger, global stage and was dubbed the “the trial of the century.” The series is divided into five, 90 minute episodes each dealing with a part of the O.J Simpson saga. The series does an amazing job in approaching the story from two angles. One it approaches it on a personal level and it tells the story of O.J. and all the important moments in his life and how he managed to achieve a level of stardom that was unprecedented for an athlete, especially an African-American one. The second angle is that it approaches the story from a larger, societal scale and how the violent racial events from Lo...