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Arresting Images - Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera (Paperback, New)
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Arresting Images - Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera (Paperback, New)
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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 policing: the popular American
'reality-TV' series Cops; the televising of surveillance footage
and home video of crime and policing; footage of Vancouver's
Stanley Cup riot; and the publicity-grabbing demonstrations of the
environmental group Greenpeace. Each of these studies is of
significant interest in its own right, but Doyle also uses them to
make a broader argument rethinking television's impacts. The four
studies show how televised activities tend to become more
institutionally important, tightly managed, dramatic, simplified
and fitted to society's dominant values. Powerful institutions,
like the police, harness television for their own legitimation and
surveillance purposes, often dictating which situations are
televised, and usually producing 'authorized definitions' of the
situations, which allow them to control the consequences. While
these institutions invoke the notion that 'seeing is believing' to
reinforce their positions of dominance, the book argues that many
observers and researchers have long overstated and misunderstood
the role of TV's visual component in shaping its influences.
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