Prisoners on prison films / Jamie Bennett, Victoria Knight.
Bennett, Jamie, author.; Knight, Victoria, author.
2021
P96.C74 B46 2021
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Title Prisoners on prison films / Jamie Bennett, Victoria Knight.
Author Bennett, Jamie, author.
ISBN 9783030609498 (electronic book)
3030609499 (electronic boook)
3030609480
9783030609481
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60949-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-60949-8 doi
Call Number P96.C74 B46 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 364
Summary 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. Jamie Bennett is Senior Civil Servant in the Ministry of Justice, UK, a Research Associate at University of Oxford, and a former prison governor. He has published widely on topics including prison management, therapeutic prison regimes, and media representations of prisons. He has previously published six books including The Working Lives of Prison Managers (2015) and The Penal System: An Introduction (sixth edition, 2019). Victoria Knight is Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University, UK. Her publications include Remote Control: Television in Prisons (2016) and the edited collection The Prison Cell (2020).-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Knight, Victoria, author.
Series Palgrave studies in crime, media and culture.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Bronson: Power and resistance
Chapter 3: Starred up: Prison cultures and personal change
Chapter 4: We are Monster: Race in prison
Chapter 5: Screwed: Prison work and prison officer cultures
Chapter 6: Everyday: Families of prisoners and the collateral harms of imprisonment
Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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