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Captured by the media : prison discourse in popular culture /

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 pris...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mason, Paul (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cullompton, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Turn on, tune in, slop out / Paul Mason
  • The function of fiction for a punitive public / Anna King and Shadd Maruna
  • Red tops, populists and the irresistible rise of the public voices(s) / Mick Ryan
  • Crime sound bites: a view from both sides of the microphone / Enver Solomon
  • What works in changing public attitudes to prison: lessons from rethinking crime and punishment / Rob Allen
  • Delivering death: capital punishment, botched executions and the American news media / Chris Greer
  • 'Buried alive': representations of the separate system in Victorian England / Helen Johnston
  • Undermining the simplicities: the films of Rex Bloomstein / Jamie Bennett
  • Creating a stir? Prisons, popular media and the power to reform / Yvonne Jewkes
  • 'The violence of images: inside the prison TV drama Oz / Brian Jarvis
  • The anti-heroines of Holloway: the prison films of Joan Henry and J. Lee Thompson / Steve Chibnall
  • Relocating Hollywood's prison film discourse / Paul Mason
  • Future punishment in American science fiction films / Mike Nellis.