The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture

Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, Barbara Harmes

Springer Nature, Feb 3, 2020 - Social Science - 788 pages

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 incarceration, from high-minded and worthy to voyeuristic and unrealistic. In this handbook, the editors bring together a huge breadth of disparate issues including women in prison, the view from ‘inside’, prisons as a source of entertainment, the real worlds of prison, and issues of race and gender. The handbook will inform students and lecturers of media, film, popular culture, gender, and cultural studies, as well as scholars of criminology and justice.

Contents

• Popular Visions of Incarceration: 1
• Unlocking Prisons Toward a Carceral Taxonomy: 16
• Voices from Within: 30
• Reading Bronson from Deep on the Inside An Exploration of Prisoners Watching Prison Films: 31
• Ear Hustling Lessons from a Prison Podcast: 51
• O Prison Darkness Lions in the Cage The Peculiar Prison Memoirs of Guantánamo Bay: 66
• Human Rights Documentary or PlotDriven Prison Drama? Animation and Nonfiction Storytelling in Camp 14 Total Control Zone: 89
• How Race and Criminality Are Embodied in Memoir and Film An Investigation of Jamaa Fanaka and Austin Reed: 101
• Taxonomy of Genre Prison Memoirs by American Men of Color: 116
• Constructions of Prisons and Prisoners Media and Fictions: 137
• Within These Walls The History and Themes of PrisonThemed Television Series: 139
• Prison on Screen in 1970s Britain: 164
• The 1980s Behind Bars The Punitive System in Prison 1987 and Lock Up 1989: 177
• So Neglect Becomes Our Ally Strategy and Tactics in the Chateau DIf in Kevin Reynolds The Count of Monte Cristo: 189
• Youre in Trouble Mate Prison and Screen Practice: 207
• How Does the Design of the Prison in Paddington 2 2017 Convey Character Story and Visual Concept?: 222
• How Do American Prisons Handle Disorder? An Examination of the Relevance of Disorder Theories and a Comparison with Popular Media Portrayals: 243
• Empathy and Injustice Framed in the Media: 263
• Mediated Representations of Prisoner Experience and Public Empathy: 265
• Separating Popular Myth from Empirical Reality The WhiteCollar Prison Experience: 288
• Club Fed? WhiteCollar Incarceration in the American Imagination: 305
• The Queen Without Kingdom Vulnerability Martyrization Monolingualism and Injury Toward a QuechuaSpeaking Woman Imprisoned in Argentina: 319
• We Dont Recognize Transsexuals and Were Not Going to Treat You Cruel and Unusual and the Lived Experiences of Transgender Women in US Pr...: 331
• Incarceration as a Dated Badge of Honor The Sopranos and the Screen Gangster in a Time of Flux: 361
• Innocence Lost and Then Found The Depiction of Wrongful Convictions in Prison Films: 374
• Learning from Prison Ethics Education and Audiences: 394
• The Lord of the Flies in Palo Alto: 395
• Bad Teens Smug Hacks and Good TV The Success and Legacy of Scared Straight: 411
• Reality TV Instilling Fear to Avoid Prison: 425
• Women Behind Bars Dissecting Social Constructs Mediated by News and Reality TV: 437
• The Prison as Dystopia: 453
• Speculative Punishment Incarceration and Control in Black Mirror: 454
• Carceral Imaginaries in Science Fiction Toward a Palimpsestic Understanding of Penality: 473
• Its More Like an Eternal Waking Nightmare from Which There Is No Escape Media and Technologies as Digital Prisons in Black Mirror: 486
• Dark Fantasies The Prisoner and the Futures of Imprisonment: 499
• Minority Report Abjection and Surveillance Futuristic Control in the Scientific Imaginary: 511
• Moral Ambivalence and the Executioners Hood Averting the Retributive Gaze in Dystopian Fiction: 527
• Creative and Commercial Transformations Dark Tourism in Dark Places: 539
• Dark Tours Prison Museums and Hotels: 541
• Pack of Thieves? The Visual Representation of Prisoners and Convicts in Dark Tourist Sites: 555
• The Legend of Madmans Hill Incarceration Madness and Dark Tourism on the Goldfields: 574
• Three Related Danish Narratives The Film R the Penal Museum at Horsens and the Replacement Prison of East Jutland: 589
• Women on the Screen: 610
• Can Prison Be a Feminist Space? Interrogating Television Representations of Womens Prisons: 613
• Women in the Prison Movie Genre and Carceral Masculinities: 627
• Is Yellow the New Orange? The Transnational Phenomenon of Female Prison Dramas: 641
• Wentworth and the Politics and Aesthetics of Representing Female Embodiment in Prison: 654
• From the Stony Ground Up The Unique Affordances of the Gaol as Hub for Transgressive Female Representations in WomeninPrison Dramas: 671
• The Pleasure Politics of Prison Erotica: 685
• Lets Have Redemption Women Religion and Sexploitation on Screen: 698
• Politicized Prisons: 714
• Are You Woman Enough to Survive? Bitch Planets Collaborative Critique of the NeoLiberal PrisonIndustrial Complex: 715
• Prison on Screen in Italy From Shame Therapy Propaganda to Citizenship Programmes: 731
• Ulucanlar from Prison to Museum Contestation on Memory and the Future in Turkey: 745
• In the Name of the Father ReFraming the Guildford Four: 763
• Conclusion: 779
• Index: 782

About the author

Associate Professor Marcus K Harmes researches in British religious history and popular culture. His recent publications in the field of television studies include Roger Delgado: I am usually referred to as the Master (2017) and Doctor Who and the Art of Adaptation (2015). He is co-editor of Postgraduate Education in Higher Education (Springer, 2018).

Meredith A Harmes teaches communication and works in enabling programs and in legal criminal justice history at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include modern British and Australian politics and popular culture in Britain and America. She is co-editor of Postgraduate Education in Higher Education (Springer, 2018).

Dr Barbara Harmes lectures at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her doctoral research focussed on the discursive controls built around sexuality in late-nineteenth-century England. Her research interests include cultural studies and religion. She has published in areas including modern Australian politics, 1960s American television and Victorian literature.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture
• Editors: Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, Barbara Harmes
• Publisher: Springer Nature, 2020
• ISBN: 3030360598, 9783030360597
• Length: 788 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / General; Social Science / Criminology; Social Science / Penology; Social Science / Popular Culture; Social Science / Sociology / General