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Prisoners on Prison Films (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Prisoners on Prison Films (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
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This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an
English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British
prison films. It examines how media representations of prison vary
in style and content, how film can influence public attitudes, and
how this affects people in prison. The book explains the ways in
which film acts as a power resource, presenting an ideological
vision of criminal justice. The audience used these films to map
the social terrain of prison, including issues of power and
resistance; race and racism; corruption and the illicit economy;
and staff-prisoner relationships, themes which are explored in the
films screened. The authors argue that media consumption is one of
the ways in which people in prison construct and maintain an ideal
of the prisoner culture and what it is to be a 'prisoner'. The book
also reveals the ways in which audience members' media choices and
readings are part of the ongoing process of constructing their
self-identity. This book illuminates the complex ways in which
media consumption is an integral part of social power, cultural
formation and identity construction. Recognising and engaging with
audiencehood offers one potential route for supporting more
progressive penal practice. This book speaks to those interested in
prisons, crime, media and culture, and film studies.
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