Arresting Images : : Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera / / Aaron Doyle.

While most research on television examines its impact on viewers, Arresting Images asks instead how TV influences what is in front of the camera, and how it reshapes other institutions as it broadcasts their activities. Aaron Doyle develops his argument with four studies of televised crime and polic...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2003
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO. Three Alternative Ways of Thinking about Television's Influences
  • CHAPTER THREE. Reality Television and Policing: The Case of Cops
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Surveillance Cameras, Amateur Video, and 'Real' Crime on Television
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Television and the Policing of Vancouver's Stanley Cup Riot
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Media Logic of Greenpeace
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusions
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Postscript: Television and Theorizing the Evolution of Criminal Justice
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index