The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture

The Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture will be an essential reference point, providing international coverage and thematic richness. The chapters examine the real and imagined spaces of the prison and, perhaps more importantly, dwell in the uncertain space between them. The modern fixation with ‘seeing inside’ prison from the outside has prompted a proliferation of media visions of incarceration, from high-minded and worthy to voyeuristic and unrealistic. In this handbook, the editors bring together a huge breadth of disparate issues including women in prison, the view from ‘inside’, prisons as a source of entertainment, the real worlds of prison, and issues of race and gender. The handbook will inform students and lecturers of media, film, popular culture, gender, and cultural studies, as well as scholars of criminology and justice.  

Editors’ Introduction.- Preface - Professor Jeffrey Ross, University of Baltimore.- Chapter one: Unlocking Prisons: Toward a Carceral Taxonomy - Associate Professor James Oleson, University of Auckland.- Section One: Prison and prisoner representations.- Chapter two: The 1980s behind Bars: the Punitive System in Prison (1987) and Lock Up (1989) - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Juan Juvé and Mariana Zárate, Universidad de Buenos Aires.- Chapter three: Freeing every Last man of Shawshank: a Reading of Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption - Debaditya Mukhopadhyay, Manikchak College.- Chapter four: Incarceration as a Dated Badge of Honour: The Sopranos and the Screen Gangster in a Time of Flux - Robert Hensley-King, Ghent University.- Chapter five: ‘So Neglect Becomes Our Ally’: Strategy and Tactics in the Chateau D'If in Kevin Reynolds' The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) - Dr Kwasu D Tembo, University of Edinburgh.- Chapter six: Prisons on Screen in 1970s Britain - Dr Marcus K Harmes, Meredith A Harmes, Dr Barbara Harmes, University of Southern Queensland.- Chapter seven: Porridge Reheated: Rewriting the Prison Sitcom - Eleanor March, University of Surrey.- Chapter eight: In the Name of the Father: (Re)Framing the Guildford Four - Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK.- Chapter nine: ‘You’re in trouble mate’: Prison and Screen Practice - Dr Lewis Fitz-Gerald, University of New England.- Chapter ten: How Does the Design of the Prison in Paddington 2 (2017) Convey Character, Story and Visual Concept? - Jane Barnwell, University of Westminster.- Section Two: Prisoner reactions to representation.- Chapter eleven: Reading Bronson from Deep on the Inside: An Exploration of Prisoners Watching Prison Films - Dr Victoria Knight, De Montfort University, UK and Dr Jamie Bennett, University of Oxford, UK.- Chapter twelve: Voices from the Inside: Prison Podcasts - Dr Dawn K. Cecil, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.- Chapter thirteen: A Place to Stand: the Importance of Inmate Narratives in Media - Nathan Young, Arizona State University.- Chapter fourteen: Mediated Representations of Prisoner Experience and Public Empathy - Dr Katrina Clifford, Deakin University and Professor Rob White, University of Tasmania.- Section Three: Out of the depths: media creations from inside prison.- Chapter fifteen: Prison on Screen in Italy: From ‘Shame Therapy’ Propaganda to Citizenship Programs - Dr Nicoletta Policek, University of Cumbria, UK.- Chapter sixteen: Make Do and Mend: Images and Realities of Prisoners’ Positive Creativity - Charlotte Bilby, Reader in Criminology, Northumbria University.- Chapter seventeen: ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Peculiar’ Prison Narratives of Guantánamo Bay - Dr Josephine Metcalf, University of Hull.- Chapter eighteen: Ghost Ships in the Sea: Guantánamo Bay Detainee Art and a Torturous Exhibition - Emilee Grunow, University of Minnesota--Twin Cities.- Section Four: Learning from prison: ethics, education, and audiences.- Chapter nineteen: The Lord of the Flies in Palo Alto - Professor James Oleson, Auckland University.- Chapter twenty: Story as ‘Freedom,’ Story as ‘Prison’: Narrative Invention and Human Rights Interventions in Camp 14: Total Control Zone - Professor David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University.- Chapter twenty-one: An Evaluation of the Effect of Prison Break on Youth Perception of Prison - Dr Okechukwu Chukwuma, Islamic University in Uganda, Kampala Campus and Julius Omokhunu, Edo State, Nigeria.- Section Five: Sensational prisons: incarceration and punishment as reality TV.- Chapter twenty-two: Tacumbú in the News:  Non-Sensational Reporting of a Perpetually Unfolding Real-Life Prison Drama - Timothy Revett, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.- Chapter twenty-three: Bad Teens, Smug Hacks & Good TV: The success and legacy of Scared Straight! - Catherine Harrington, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.- Chapter twenty-four: The Same, but Different: Discourses of Familiarity and Fear in 60 Days In - Dr Faye Davies, Birmingham City University, UK.- Chapter twenty-five: Reality TV: Instilling Fear to Avoid Prison - Dr Erin DiCesare, Johnson C. Smith University.- Chapter twenty-six: The Queen without a Kingdom: Vulnerability, Martyrization, Monolingualism and Injury Towards a Quechua Speaking Woman Imprisoned in Argentina - Dr Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.- Chapter twenty-seven: Women Behind Bars: Dissecting Social Constructs Mediated by News and Reality TV - Jennifer Thomas, Howard University.- Chapter twenty-eight: Monstrous Celebrity and Train-Wreck Femininity: The Tabloid-isation of Prisons and Prisoners - Dr Susan Hopkins, University of Southern Queensland.- Section Six: Genre and prisons: Black Mirror and beyond.- Chapter twenty-nine: Speculative Punishment, Incarceration, and Control in Black Mirror - Dr David Pierson, University of Southern Maine.- Chapter thirty: Carceral Imaginaries in Science Fiction: Toward a Palimpsestic Understanding of Penality - Kaitlyn Quinn, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Erika Canossini, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto  Vanessa Evans, Department of English, York University.- Chapter thirty-one: ‘It's more like an eternal waking nightmare from which there is no escape’: Media and Technologies as (Digital) Prison in Black Mirror - Julie Escurignan, University of Roehampton and Dr François Allard-Huver, University of Lorraine.- Chapter thirty-two: Dark Fantasies: The Prisoner and the Future of Imprisonment - Dr Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, Dr Barbara Harmes, University of Southern Queensland.- Chapter thirty-three: Minority Report, Abjection and Surveillance: Futuristic Control in the Scientific Imaginary - Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK.- Chapter thirty-four: Moral Ambivalence and the Executioner’s Hood – Averting the Retributive Gaze in Dystopian Fiction - Dr Francine Rochford, La Trobe University, Australia.- Section Seven: Creative and commercial transformations: dark tourism in dark places.- Chapter thirty-five: Dark Tours: Prison Museums and Hotels - Associate Professor James Oleson, Auckland University.- Chapter thirty-six: ‘Pack of thieves?’: The visual representation of prisoners in dark tourist sites - Dr Jenny Wise and Dr Lesley McLean, University of New England, Australia.- Chapter thirty-seven: The Legend of Madman’s Hill: Incarceration, Madness and Dark Tourism on the Goldfields - Dr David Waldron, Federation University Australia.- Chapter thirty-eight: Three Related Danish Narratives: the Film ‘R’, the Penal Museum at Horsens and the Replacement Prison of East Jutland - Dr Jack Dyce.- Chapter thirty-nine: ‘Ulucanlar from Prison to Museum: Struggle on Memory and the Future in Turkey’ - Dr Mine Gencel Bek, University of Siegen.- Section Eight: Orange is the New Black: race and gender in a television phenomenon.- Chapter forty: Introduction to Imprisonment by the ‘Nice White Lady’: Piper Chapman as the Ideal Racialised and Classed Neoliberal Subject - Kate Meakin, University of Sussex.- Chapter forty-one: Can Prison be a Feminist Space?: Interrogating Television Representations of Women’s Prisons - Jessica Ford, University of New South Wales, Australia.- Chapter forty-two: Advocating Prisoners’ Human Rights: A Textual Analysis of Orange is the New Black - Dr Alina Thiemann, Institute of Sociology, the Romanian

Associate Professor Marcus K Harmes researches in British religious history and popular culture. His recent publications in the field of television studies include Roger Delgado: I am usually referred to as the Master (2017) and Doctor Who and the Art of Adaptation (2015). He is co-editor of Postgraduate Education in Higher Education (Springer, 2018).

Meredith A Harmes teaches communication and works in enabling programs and in legal criminal justice history at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include modern British and Australian politics and popular culture in Britain and America. She is co-editor of Postgraduate Education in Higher Education (Springer, 2018).

Dr Barbara Harmes lectures at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her doctoral research focussed on the discursive controls built around sexuality in late-nineteenth-century England. Her research interests include cultural studies and religion. She has published in areas including modern Australian politics, 1960s American television and  Victorian literature.