Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781843921455 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 252 str.

Paul Mason

Opis

Captured by the Media explores the increasingly important issue of media and popular discourse on prisons and punishment, and its relationship to public attitudes and government penal policy. In providing such an analysis this book draws upon work from academics, prison and media practitioners, addressing questions of cultural constructions and consumptions of penal discourse in media and culture. This book turns on the television, opens the newspapers, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture and investigates the regimes of penal representation. It places media discourse on prisons firmly within the penal policy/public opinion complex and suggests that while 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 punishmentits contested meaning and its politics of representation demands investigation. Alongside contributi

Spis treści

1. Turn on, tune in, slop out, Paul Mason 2. The function of fiction for a punitive public, Anna King and Shadd Maruna 3. Red tops, populists and the irresistible rise of the public voice(s), Mick Ryan 4. Crime sound bites: a view from both sides of the microphone, Enver Solomon 5. What works in changing public attitudes: findings from rethinking crime and punishment, Rob Allen 6. Delivering death: capital punishment, botched executions and the American news media, Chris Greer 7. 'Buried alive': representations of the separate system in Victorian England, Helen Johnston 8. Undermining the simplicities: the films of Rex Bloomstein, Jamie Bennett 9. Creating a stir? Prisons, popular media and the power to reform, Yvonne Jewkes 10. The violence of images: inside the prison TV drama Oz, Brian Jarvis 11. The anti-heroines of Holloway : the prison films of Joan Henry and J. Lee Thompson, Steve Chibnall 12. Relocating Hollywood's prison film discourse, Paul Mason 13. Future punishment in American science fiction films, Mike Nellis

O autorze

Paul Mason