Captured by the Media

ISBN-13: 9781843921448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str.

Opis

Explores the issue of media and discourse on prisons and punishment, and its relationship to public attitudes and government penal policy. This book engages with what might be termed the 'cultural turn' of criminology and discusses the relationship between

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