Arresting images : crime and policing in front of the television camera /

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While most research on television examines its impact on viewers, Arresting Images asks instead how TV influences what is in front of the camera, and how it reshapes other institutions as it broadcasts their activities. Aaron Doyle develops his argument with four studies of televised crime and polic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Doyle, Aaron (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Mass media > Social aspects.
Crime on television > Social aspects.
Reality television programs > Social aspects.
Mass media and crime.
Mass media and criminal justice.
Médias > Aspect social.
Criminalité à la télévision > Aspect social.
Télévérités > Aspect social.
Médias et criminalité.
Médias et justice pénale.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Reality-TV.
Criminaliteit.
Politie.
Sociale aspecten.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Three alternative ways of thinking about television's influences
  • Reality television and policing : the case of Cops
  • Surveillance cameras, amateur video, and "real" crime on television
  • Television and the policing of Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot
  • The media logic of Greenpeace
  • Conclusions
  • Postscript : television and theorizing the evolution of criminal justice.

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