American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television: Captivating Aspirations.

American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television: Captivating Aspirations.

Far more than a building of brick and mortar, the prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media to legitimize its institutional reproduction. Perhaps no medium has done more in recent years to both produce and intervene in such stories than television. This unapologetically inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flamand, Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press (Bibliovault) : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Mass media and criminal justice > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Prisons in mass media.
Prisons > United States.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • The Captivating Aspirations of Post-Network Quality Television in the Age of Mass Incarceration: An Introduction
  • 1. Mass (Mediating) Incarceration
  • 2. How Does Violent Spectacle Appear as TV Realism? Sources of OZ's Penal Imaginary
  • 3. If It's Not TV, is It Sociology? The Wire
  • 4. Is Entertainment the New Activism? Orange Is the New Black, Women's Imprisonment, and the Taste for Prisons
  • 5. Can Melodrama Redeem American History? Ava DuVernay's 13th and Queen Sugar
  • Conclusion: American Politics and Prison Reform after TV's Digital Turn
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

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