Captured by the Media

Herausgeber: Mason, Paul

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781843921455
• ISBN-10: 1843921456
• Artikelnr.: 24999333

Autorenporträt

Paul Mason

Inhaltsangabe

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