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Crime and the Media - The Post-Modern Spectacle (Paperback)
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Crime and the Media - The Post-Modern Spectacle (Paperback)
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This book brings together key debates within cultural studies,
media studies, criminology and sociology on the relationship
between the media and crime in a postmodern society - highlighted
by recent controversies on the effects of media portrayals of
violence and crime on the community at large. Real-life crime,
crime reconstruction and crime as entertainment are categories that
are now so interdependent that the media itself is in danger of
confusing the genres as it seeks to profit from their undoubted
appeal. This intertextuality is a key theme in this collection. The
contributors highlight and theorise the symbiosis that exists
between real crime and its representations, from media moral
panics, policing the crisis and representing order to the
postmodern confusion of crime and spectacle, trial by media and
trials on media. As recent debates have shown all too starkly, the
media's neutrality in this critical area is ever more problematic.
This is an invaluable introduction to new thinking in a pressing
contemporary debate.
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