American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television Captivating Aspirations

The prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media to legitimize its institutional reproduction. This interdisciplinary work presents a series of investigations into some of the most influential and innovative treatments of American mass incarceration to hit our screens in recent decades.

About the author

Lee A. Flamand, PhD is currently a Research Associate at Ruhr University Bochum.

Product details

• Authors: Lee Flamand
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.12.2025
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9781041175483
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4117548-3
• Pages: 312
• Subjects: History, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, prison, Race, Humanities, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Mass Incarceration, new golden age of tv, penal realism, critical television analysis of incarceration