Criminal Visions
Subtitle: Media Representations of Crime and Justice
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cullompton
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781843924401
Subjects: Mass media and criminal justice; Mass media and crime
Description: Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest and have been the subject of intense debate amongst those with an interest in the media, crime and criminal justice. Despite being an increasingly high profile subject few publications address this subject head on. This book aims to meet this need by bringing together an important range of papers from leading researchers in the field, addressing issues of fictional, factual and hybrid representations in the media - the so called 'docu-dramas' and 'faction'.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of tables and figures; Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Criminal Visions in Context; 1 From law and order to lynch mobs: crime news since the Second World War; 2 Video violence: how far can you go?; 3 'Signal crimes': detective work, mass media and constructing collective memory; Part 2 Criminal Representations: Crimes and Criminals; 4 Masculinity, morality and action: Michael Mann and the heist movie; 5 Sex crime and the media: press representations in Northern Ireland; 6 Organized crime: Mafia myths in film and television.; title: 7 Political violence, Irish Republicanism and the British media: semantics, symbiosis and the state8 Mass media/mass murder: serial killer cinema and the modern violated body; Part 3 Criminal Decisions: Agencies and Agents; 9 Photo stories and family albums: imagining criminals and victims on Crimewatch UK; 10 Media representations of visual surveillance; 11 Completing the 'half-formed picture'? Media images of policing; 12 F.