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Images of incarceration : representations of prison in film and television drama /
An analysis of the impact of TV on the democratic processes that lead to criminal policy making - Everthing from 'The Shawshank Redemption' to the TV sit-com; how public perceptions of serious social issues are often based on superficial, misleading and sometimes comfortable accounts.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winchester, U.K. :
Waterside Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Prison Film Project.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : prisons and prison drama
- Prison film in Britain and America
- The British prison film revisited
- Tracking the US penal state : issues and eras
- Tracking the US penal state : in defence of Hollywood
- The smaller screen
- Origins and intentions : in praise of Bad girls
- Hidden from view : Buried and Ghosts ... of the civil dead
- Inside the predatory prison : Oz
- Reform and change
- On being 'the man' : the prison governor
- In and around the penal state : escaped and released prisoners
- Film, television and popular culture : a note.