Description
Book SynopsisDebating cultural studies, media studies, criminology and sociology on the relationship between the media and crime in a postmodern society
Trade Review'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
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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)
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