Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

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English | ISBN: 1138234516 | 2019 | 134 pages | EPUB | 942 KB
Television shows that we might call 'prestige television' represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive, sometimes powerful, and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama, comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us.