03682oam 2200757I 450 991080871320332120230828233843.01-134-00882-11-299-28509-01-134-00875-91-282-07737-697866120773711-84392-576-110.4324/9781843925767 (CKB)1000000000767094(EBL)449683(OCoLC)609842651(SSID)ssj0000357579(PQKBManifestationID)11278560(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000357579(PQKBWorkID)10358993(PQKB)10325854(MiAaPQ)EBC449683(MiAaPQ)EBC5268546(Au-PeEL)EBL449683(CaPaEBR)ebr10305955(CaONFJC)MIL459759(OCoLC)830323973(Au-PeEL)EBL5268546(CaONFJC)MIL207737(OCoLC)1024248825(EXLCZ)99100000000076709420180706d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCaptured by the media prison discourse in popular culture /edited by Paul MasonCullompton, Devon, U.K. ;Portland, Or. :Willan Pub.,2006.1 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84392-144-8 1-84392-145-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Captured by the Media; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 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 to prison: lessons 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 England8 Undermining the simplicities: the films of Rex Bloomstein9 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; IndexThis 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 prisons firmly within the arena of penal policy and public opinion, suggesting that while Bad Girls, The Shawshank Redemption, internet jail cams, advertising and debates about televising executions continue to ebb and flow in contemporary culture, the persistence of this spectacle of punishment - its cCorrectionsMass media and criminal justicePrisonsPunishmentCorrections.Mass media and criminal justice.Prisons.Punishment.302.23364.6Mason Paul741485MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808713203321Captured by the media4033629UNINA