Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Name: Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass IncarcerationA Wall Rise Up\nAuthor(s): Victoria Bryan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367726782, 978-0367726782\nSynopsis\nTelevision 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.\n\nDrawing on the work of Angela Davis, Doran Larson, Dylan Rodriguez, Michelle Alexander, and Lisa Guenther, the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black, Rectify, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (.