TY - BOOK ID - 101896597 TI - American mass incarceration and post-network quality television : captivating aspirations PY - 2022 SN - 9048553687 9463725059 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mass media and criminal justice KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Prisons in mass media. KW - Prisons KW - Criminal justice and mass media KW - Mass media KW - Post-Network Television, Mass Incarceration, Race, Prison, New Golden Age of TV. KW - Prison television programs KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101896597 AB - Far more than a building of brick and mortar, the prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media to legitimize its institutional reproduction. Perhaps no medium has done more in recent years to both produce and intervene in such stories than television.
This unapologetically interdisciplinary work presents a series of investigations into some of the most influential and innovative treatments of American mass incarceration to hit our screens in recent decades. Looking beyond celebratory accolades, Lee A. Flamand argues that we cannot understand the eagerness of influential programs such as
OZ, The Wire, Orange Is the New Black, 13th, and Queen Sugar
to integrate the sensibilities of prison ethnography, urban sociology, identity politics activism, and even Black feminist theory into their narrative structures without understanding how such critical postures relate to the cultural aspirations and commercial goals of a quickly evolving TV industry and the most deeply ingrained continuities of American storytelling practices. ER -