Images of Incarceration: Representations of Prison in Film and Television Drama
Images of Incarceration focuses on fictional portrayals of prison and prisoners to demonstrate how they are depicted in the cinema and on TV, featuring films such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Scum, McVicar, Brubaker, Cool Hand Luke, Made in Britain and Greenfingers as well as TV dramas like Porridge , Bad Girls , Buried and Oz. The book is part of the Prison Film Project sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation under its Rethinking Crime and Punishment initiative. It compares fictional representations with 'actual existing reality' to provide insights into how screen images affect understand…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: O'Sullivan, Sean
- ISBN: 978-1-904380-08-5
- EAN: 9781904380085
- Produktnummer: 4017824
- Verlag: Waterside Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 194 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.0 cm 304 g
- Gewicht: 304
Über den Autor
David Wilson is professor of criminology at the Centre for Criminal Justice Policy and Research at the University of Central England in Birmingham. A former prison governor, he is editor of the Howard Journal and a well-known author, broadcaster and presenter for TV and radio, including for the BBC, C4 and Sky Television. He has written three other books for Waterside Press: The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz (with the latter), Prison(er) Education : Stories of Change and Transformation (with Ann Reuss) (2000), and Serial Killers: Hunting Britons and Their Victims 1960-2006 (2007).
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