Captured by the Media

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Paul Mason
Routledge, 2013 M05 13 - 256 páginas
This book turns on the television, opens the newspaper, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture, investigating the regimes of penal representation and how they may contribute to a populist and punitive criminological imagination. It places media discourse in prisons firmly within the arena of penal policy and public opinion, suggesting that while Bad Girls, The Shawshank Redemption, internet jail cams, advertising and debates about televising executions continue to ebb and flow in contemporary culture, the persistence of this spectacle of punishment - its contested meaning and its politics of representation - demands investigation. Alongside chapters addressing the construction of popular images of prison and the death penalty in television and film, Captured by the Media also has contributions from prison reform groups and prison practitioners which discuss forms of media intervention in penal debate. This book provides a highly readable exploration of media discourse on prisons and punishment, and its relationship to public attitudes and government penal policy. At the same time it engages with the 'cultural turn' within criminology and offers an original contribution to discussion of the relationship between prison, public and the state. It will be essential reading for students in both media studies and criminology as well as practitioners and commentators in these fields.

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1 Turn on tune in slop out
1
2 The function of fiction for a punitive public
16
3 Red tops populists and the irresistible rise of the public voices
31
a view from both sides of the microphone
48
lessons from Rethinking Crime and Punishment
65
capital punishment botched executions and the American news media
84
representations of the separate system in Victorian England
103
the films of Rex Bloomstein
122
9 Creating a stir? Prisons popular media and the power to reform
137
inside the prison TV drama Oz
154
the prison films of Joan Henry and J Lee Thompson
172
12 Relocating Hollywoods prison film discourse
191
13 Future punishment in American science fiction films
210
Index
229
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