Victoria M. Bryan

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration

A Wall Rise Up

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama, comedy and horror that utilize prison as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781138234512
• ISBN-10: 1138234516
• Artikelnr.: 57673076

Autorenporträt

Victoria M. Bryan is the Honors Program Director and Associate Professor of English at Cleveland State Community College, USA. She is also founder and director of the Turn the Page Literacy Initiative that operates in Southeast Tennessee. Dr Bryan earned her PhD in English from the University of Mississippi in 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - "A False Solution": Understanding Prisons through Pop
Culture, and the Potential of Prestige Television in the Age of Mass
Incarceration 1. "Daniel Has Risen from the Dead": Solitary Confinement,
Social Death, and the Fallibility of Memory in Rectify 2. "Not for
Correction, but for Storage": Incarceration as Cultural Trauma in American
Horror Story 3. "We Need the Prison": Troubling the Age of Mass
Incarceration via the Undead Body in The Walking Dead 4. "I Got a Lot of
Prisons in My Life": Using the Prison Industrial Complex to Complicate
Ideals of American Freedom in Orange Is the New Black Conclusion - "Revenge
Isn't Justice": The Master's Tools and the Siren Song of Reform