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  • Watching the Cops

    Essays on Police and Policing in 21st Century Film and Television

    Edited by Barbara Harmes, Meredith A. Harmes, Marcus K. Harmes ...
    Globally, police officers are the object of unprecedented visual scrutiny. The use of mobile phones, CCTV and personal body cams means that police are not only being filmed on the job but are also filming themselves. In popular culture, police have featured heavily on the big screen since the era of silent shorts and on television since the 1930s. Their fictional portrayals today take on added ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Histories and Philosophies of Carceral Education

    Aims, Contradictions, Promises and Problems

    Edited by Marcus K Harmes, Barbara Harmes, Meredith A Harmes ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited collection encourages philosophical exploration of the nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems of the practice of education within prisons around the world. Such exploration is particularly necessary given the complex operational barriers to education, and higher education in particular, within prison-based teaching and learning. These operational barriers are matched by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Nurse in Popular Media

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Barbara Harmes, Meredith A. Harmes, Marcus K. Harmes ...
    The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media intersecting is the Edison phonographic recording of Florence Nightingale's voice in 1890. Since then, a parade of nurses, good, bad or otherwise, has appeared on both cinema and television screens. How do we interpret the many different types of nurses--real and fictional, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Church on British Television

    From the Coronation to Coronation Street

    by Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, Barbara Harmes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book will be the first systematic and comprehensive text to analyze the many and contrasting appearances of the Church of England on television. It covers a range of genres and programs including crime drama, science fiction, comedy, including the specific genre of ‘ecclesiastical comedy’, zombie horror and non-fiction broadcasting. Readers interested in church and political history, popular ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture

    Edited by Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, Barbara Harmes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture will be an essential reference point, providing international coverage and thematic richness. The chapters examine the real and imagined spaces of the prison and, perhaps more importantly, dwell in the uncertain space between them. The modern fixation with ‘seeing inside’ prison from the outside has prompted a proliferation of media visions of ... Read more

    $332.99 USD

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  • Criminology Goes to the Movies

    Crime Theory and Popular Culture

    by Nicole Rafter, Michelle Brown ...
    A "deftly written and absorbing" look at how films reflect concepts in criminology and affect our perceptions of criminal behavior (Richard Rosenfeld, coauthor of Crime and the American Dream).From Psycho to Double Indemnity to Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy through scholarly research, but also in popular ... Read more

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  • Media and Crime

    by Yvonne Jewkes ...
    Series series Key Approaches to Criminology
    This book critically examines the complex interactions between media and crime.Written with an engaging and authoritative voice, it guides you through all the key issues, ranging from news reporting of crime, media constructions of children and women, moral panics, and media and the police to ′reality′ crime shows, surveillance and social control.This third edition:Explores innovations in ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Detecting Canada

    Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film

    Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski, Marilyn Rose ...
    Series Book 16 - Film and Media Studies
    The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka.Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Contemporary British Television Crime Drama

    Cops on the Box

    Edited by Ruth McElroy ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Television Studies
    Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and continues to enjoy some of the highest viewing figures. Crime drama offers audiences stories of right and wrong, moral authority asserted and resisted, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Horror of Police

    by Travis Linnemann ...
    Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of policeYear after year the crisis churns: graft and corruption, violence and murder, riot cops and armored vehicles claim city streets. Despite promises of reform, police operate with impunity, unaccountable to law. In The Horror of Police, Travis Linnemann asks why, with this open record of violence and corruption, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Demystifying the Big House

    Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations

    by Emily Plec, Adina Schneeweis, Amanda Barnes Cook, Sarah Fenstermaker, Valerie Jenness, J. David Wolfgang, Pauline Matthey, Kathryn M. Whiteley, Meredith Huey Dye, S. Lenise Wallace, Rebecca Kern, Kalen Churcher, Joy Jenkins, L. Clare Bratten, Le’Brian A. Patrick ...
    Series series Perspectives on Crime and Justice
    Essays in this volume illustrate how shows such as Orange Is the New Black and Oz impact the public’s perception of crime rates, the criminal justice system, and imprisonment. Contributors look at prison wives on reality television series, portrayals of death row, breastfeeding while in prison, transgender prisoners, and black masculinity. They also examine the ways in which media messages ignore ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Crisis Vision

    Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance

    by Torin Monahan ...
    Series series Errantries
    In Crisis Vision, Torin Monahan explores how artists confront the racializing dimensions of contemporary surveillance. He focuses on artists ranging from Kai Wiedenhöfer, Paolo Cirio, and Hank Willis Thomas to Claudia Rankine and Dread Scott, who engage with what he calls crisis vision—the regimes of racializing surveillance that position black and brown bodies as targets for police and state ... Read more

    $18.69 USD