Overview

This volume brings together key debates within cultural studies, media studies, criminology and sociology on the relationship between the media and crime in a postmodern society. The debate has been highlighted by 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 book. The contibutors highlight and theorize 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. Debates have shown that the media's neutrality in this area is problematic, and this text-book serves as an introduction to thinking in a contemporary debate.

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Author:   David Kidd-Hewitt ,  Richard Osborne
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780745309118

ISBN 10:   0745309119
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   20 June 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Preface 1. Crime and the Media: A Criminological Perspective by David Kidd-Hewitt (London Guildhall University) 2. Crime and the Media: From Media Studies to Postmodernism by Richard Osborne (London Guildhall University) 3. Entertaining the Crisis: Television and Moral Enterprise by Richard Sparks (Keele University) 4. Black Cops and Black Villains in Film and TV Crime Fiction by Jim Pines (University of Luton) 5. Telling Tales: Media Power, Ideology and the Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse in Britain by Paula Skidmore (Nottingham Trent University) 6. Media Reporting of Rape: The 1993 British ‘Date Rape’ Controversy by Sue Lees (University of North London) 7. Through the Looking Glass: Public Images of White Collar Crime by A.E. Stephenson-Burton 8. A Fair Cop?: Viewing the Effects of the Canteen Culture in Prime Suspect and Between the Lines by Mary Eaton (St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex) 9. Prime Time Punishment: The British Prison and Television by Paul Mason 10. Small Crime to Big Time: An Australian Celebrity Self-Abduction by Noel Sanders (UTS, Sydney) 11. From Desire to Deconstruction: Horror Films and Audience Reactions by Rikke Schubart (University of Copenhagen) Notes by Index

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`An interesting and very readable addition to academic discourses on crime, violence and the media and will be of use to students across a range of disciplines' -- Media, Culture and Society

'An interesting and very readable addition to academic discourses on crime, violence and the media and will be of use to students across a range of disciplines' -- Media, Culture and Society

Author Information

David Kidd-Hewitt taught criminology and law and society at London Guildhall University for over 20 years and was retired Head of the Department of Sociology and Applied Social Studies. He was a member of the editorial team on the journal Criminal Justice Matters. Richard Osborne lectures in cultural studies, mass media and philosophy at the University of Arts London. He has authored many books including Art Theory for Beginners and Philosophy for Beginners.

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