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Crimesploitation
\"Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised.\" Most of us have encountered this warning while watching television at some point. It is typically attached to a brand of reality crime TV that Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance call \"crimesploitation\": spectacles designed to entertain mass audiences by exhibiting \"real\" criminal behavior and its consequences. This book examines their enduring popularity in American culture. Analyzing the structure and content of several popular crimesploitation shows, including Cops, Dog: The Bounty Hunter, and To Catch a Predator, as well as newer examples like Making a Murderer and Don't F**K with Cats, Kaplan and LaChance highlight the troubling nature of the genre: though it presents itself as ethical and righteous, its entertainment value hinges upon suffering. Viewers can imagine themselves as deviant and ungovernable like the criminals in the show, thereby escaping a law-abiding lifestyle. Alternatively, they can identify with law enforcement officials, exercising violence, control, and \"justice\" on criminal others. Crimesploitation offers a sobering look at the depictions of criminals, policing, and punishment in modern America.
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Morta Las Vegas : CSI and the problem of the West
Through all its transformations and reinventions over the past century, \"Sin City\" has consistently been regarded by artists and cultural critics as expressing in purest form, for better or worse, an aesthetic and social order spawned by neon signs and institutionalized indulgence. In other words, Las Vegas provides a codex with which to confront the problems of the West and to track the people, materials, ideas, and virtual images that constitute postregional space.Morta Las Vegas considers Las Vegas and the problem of regional identity in the American West through a case study of a single episode of the television crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Delving deep into the interwoven events of the episode titled \"4 x 4,\" but resisting a linear, logical case-study approach, the authors draw connections between the city--a layered and complex world--and the violent, uncanny mysteries of a crime scene. Morta Las Vegas reveals nuanced issues characterizing the emergence of a postregional West, moving back and forth between a geographical and a procedural site and into a place both in between and beyond Western identity.
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Die Konstruktion politischer Bilder und ihre Vermittlungsstruktur im TV-Unterhaltungsprogramm
Wie Welt- und Wertvorstellungen inhaltlich und dramaturgisch im Film konstruiert werden, steht im Focus der medienwissenschaftlichen Studie von Mehmet Tas. Er stellt eine Reihe von Kategorien vor, die eine neue Perspektive auf die filmische Narration eroffnen und einen wichtigen Beitrag zur genreubergreifenden Filmanalyse darstellen. Die Arbeit umfasst die manifesten und latenten Merkmale der Kriminalserien, Stereotype, Klischees, zielorientierte filmsprachliche Lenkung, Charakterstudien, kommentierte Sequenzplane etc. und fordert damit das verborgene Zusammenspiel von Unterhaltung und politisch-gesellschaftlichen Funktionen der Kriminalserien an den Tag. Sie ist fur Filmemacher, Drehbuchautoren und Medieninteressierte ein erster Schritt zum kennen lernen des Wirkungspotentials der geschaffenen Bilder und vielleicht ein Ansto, Fiktion multidimensional zu erschaffen. Ich finde den Ansatz, dramaturgische Standardeinheiten von Krimi-Serien zu beschreiben, sehr wichtig. Solche Standardeinheiten lassen Erzahlmuster erkennen, Bausteine der filmischen Konstruktion, die wichtige Formen des filmischen Erzahlens sichtbar machen. Dabei werden zwangslaufig auch Schemata, Stereotype etc. erkennbar, die einerseits genrespezifisch sind und damit zur Genretheorie neue Aspekte beitragen, andererseits aber auch genreubergreifend allgemeine Formen des Erzahlens darstellen, die einer Theorie der filmischen Narration hilfreich sein konnen. Prof. Dr. Knut Hickethier
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Framing law and crime
This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television's most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film, Framing Law and Crime offers a critical survey of a variety of genres and media, integrating descriptions of technique with critical analysis, and incorporating historical and socio-political critique. The first set of essays brings together accounts of the history of the Law and Cinema Movement; the groundbreaking genre of \"post-apocalyptic fiction;\" and the policy-setting genesis of a Canadian documentary. The second section of the book turns to the examination of a range of international or global films, with an eye to assessing the strengths, frailties, and possible functions of law, as depicted in fictional cinema. After an international focus in the second section, the third section focuses on law and crime in American film and television, inclusive of both fictional and documentary modes of narration. This section's expansion beyond film narratives to include television series attempts to broaden the scope of the edited collection, in terms of media discussed; it is also a nod to how the big screen, although still a dominant force in American popular culture, now has to compete, to some extent, with the small screen, for influence over the collective American popular cultural imaginary. The fourth section, titled brings together various chapters that attempt to instantiate how a \"Gothic Criminology\" could be useful, as an interpretative framework in analyzing depictions of law and crime in film and television. The fifth and final section covers issues of pedagogy, epistemology, and ethics in relation to moving images of law and crime. Merging wide-ranging analyses with nuanced scholarly interpretations, Framing Law and Crime examines key concepts and showcases original research reflecting the latest interdisciplinary trends in the scholarship of the moving image. It addresses, not only scholars, but also fans, and will heighten the appreciation of connoisseurs and newcomers to these topics alike.
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The Sopranos
From its premiere in 1999, The Sopranos captivated viewers with its easily relatable protagonist who has troubles at work and home, and went on to be one of the most critically successful shows in television history. By demonstrating that TV could be at once artistic and profitable, complex and engaging, edifying and entertaining, the series also redefined the prime-time drama. In this volume, author Gary R. Edgerton delves into the entire run of The Sopranos, integrating the existing scholarly literature, while also going much further than any previous source in exploring the series' innovations and legacy.First, Edgerton describes and analyzes The Sopranos' enormous business and industrial significance within the context of HBO as a network, a diversified entertainment company, and an identity brand. In chapter 2, he examines the many autobiographical influences and work experiences of creator David Chase and the narrative antecedents that informed the series' beginnings. In chapter 3, Edgerton underscores The Sopranos' deeply evocative sense of place, honing in especially on the cultural geography of New Jersey as representative of the nation as a whole. Finally, in chapter 4, Edgerton highlights how The Sopranos marks \"A Midlife Crisis for the Gangster Genre\" by illustrating some of the most profound generic transformations that took place over the course of the show, while his conclusion summarizes The Sopranos' ongoing industrial, aesthetic, and cultural legacy.The Sopranos is widely recognized in both popular and scholarly literature as a turning point in the history and development of TV. Fans who want to learn more about the show and scholars of television history will enjoy this entertaining and educational volume.
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Crime and Local Television News
This volume offers an analysis of crime coverage on local television, exploring the nature of local television news and the ongoing appeal of crime stories. Drawing on the perspectives of media studies, psychology, sociology, and criminology, authors Jeremy H. Lipschultz and Michael L. Hilt focus on live local television coverage of crime and examine its irresistibility to viewers and its impact on society's perceptions of itself. They place local television news in its theoretical and historical contexts, and consider it through the lens of legal, ethical, racial, aging, and technological concerns. In its comprehensive examination of how local television newsrooms around the country address coverage of crime, this compelling work discusses such controversial issues as the use of crime coverage to build ratings, and considers new models for reform of local TV newscasts. The volume includes national survey data from news managers and content analyses from late night newscasts in a range of markets, and integrates the theory and practice of local television news into the discussion. Lipschultz and Hilt also project the future of local television news and predict the impact of social and technological changes on news. As a provocative look at the factors and forces shaping local news and crime coverage, Crime and Local Television News makes an important contribution to the discussions taking place in broadcast journalism, mass communication, media and society, and theory and research courses. It will also interest all who consider the impact of local news content and coverage.
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Crime Uncovered
This book is an examination and celebration of iconic police detectives in the long and bloody history of crime fiction, film and television, identifying the individual characteristics that define these much-loved figures and discussing how they relate to their surroundings, country and class and the criminals they relentlessly pursue.
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Police Ten 7 feeds racial stereotypes of Māori and Pasifika peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand
Tests the hypotheses that Māori and Pasifika depicted on the reality crime TV show Police Ten 7 will be more likely to be depicted as committing violent crimes than Pākehā suspects, and that the proportion of aggressive offences Māori and Pasifika are depicted committing on the show will be higher than that drawn from the National Annual Apprehension statistics. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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