Captured by the MediaPaul 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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... British Library Cataloguing—in—Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Typeset by GCS, Leighton Buzzard, Beds Project management by Deer Park Productions, Tavistock, Devon Printed and ...
... British Library Cataloguing—in—Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Typeset by GCS, Leighton Buzzard, Beds Project management by Deer Park Productions, Tavistock, Devon Printed and ...
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... British Cinema and Co-ordinator of the British Cinema and Television Research Group at De Montfort University, Leicester. Since completing a PhD and writing a book on crime reporting in the British press (Lazo-and-Order News, 1977) ...
... British Cinema and Co-ordinator of the British Cinema and Television Research Group at De Montfort University, Leicester. Since completing a PhD and writing a book on crime reporting in the British press (Lazo-and-Order News, 1977) ...
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... British cinema. Recent books include studies of British directors ]. Lee Thompson (2000) and Peter Walker (1998), and the crime films Get Carter (2003) and Brighton Rock (2004). He has also co-edited collections on British Crime Cinema ...
... British cinema. Recent books include studies of British directors ]. Lee Thompson (2000) and Peter Walker (1998), and the crime films Get Carter (2003) and Brighton Rock (2004). He has also co-edited collections on British Crime Cinema ...
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... British penal system, Prison, noted that the 'very success of the Strangeways series, especially its visual impact ironically, has helped constrict the meaning of prison to that particular prison's interior. To the public eye, prison ...
... British penal system, Prison, noted that the 'very success of the Strangeways series, especially its visual impact ironically, has helped constrict the meaning of prison to that particular prison's interior. To the public eye, prison ...
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Paul Mason. Research on the distribution and frequency of prison programmes on British television (Mason 1995, 1996) further underscores Iewkes' argument. Between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1990, Mason found 186 programmes concerned ...
Paul Mason. Research on the distribution and frequency of prison programmes on British television (Mason 1995, 1996) further underscores Iewkes' argument. Between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1990, Mason found 186 programmes concerned ...
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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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