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Crimesploitation – Crime, Punishment, and Pleasure on Reality Television: The Cultural Lives of Law

Autor Daniel Lachance, Paul Kaplan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mai 2022

"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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ISBN-13: 9781503631731
ISBN-10: 1503631737
Pagini: 180
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: MK – Stanford University Press
Seria The Cultural Lives of Law


Notă biografică

Paul Kaplan is Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He is the author of Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment (Lexington, 2013).Daniel LaChance is Winship Distinguished Research Professor in History at Emory University. He is the author of Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States (Chicago, 2016).

Cuprins

1. Humiliation, Inc.: Policing the Criminal on Primetime
2. Watching the Night Creatures: Crimesploitation and Boredom
3. Cuffs of Love: Punishment and Redemption in Crimesploitation
4. Middlebrow Crimesploitation
Epilogue: W(h)ither Crimesploitation?