Reading Bronson from deep on the inside: An exploration of prisoners watching prison films

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dc.contributor.authorBennett, Jamie
dc.contributor.authorKnight, Victoria
dc.date.acceptance2019-05
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T09:37:58Z
dc.date.available2020-03-10T09:37:58Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-04
dc.description.abstractThis chapter reports on a small scale project screening contemporary British prison films to people serving sentences in British prisons. In particular, this will focus on one of the films, Bronson (UK 2008, Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn), a stylized biography of notorious British prisoner, Charles Bronson. The chapter will set out the theoretical groundwork regarding the representation of prisons in the media and its effects upon society and individuals. It will go on to explain the methodology of the study and summarise the narrative of the film before exploring the responses of the audience. The responses particularly focus on issues of power, resistance and hope. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the consumption of prison media by prisoners and its implications for individuals and social control.en
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dc.funder.otherDe Montfort Universityen
dc.identifier.citationBennett, J. and Knight V. (2020) Reading Bronson from Deep on the Inside: An Exploration of Prisoners Watching Prison Films. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture, pp.33–49en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36059-7_3
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19341
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedNoen
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute for Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justiceen
dc.subjectprisonen
dc.subjectprisonersen
dc.subjectprison filmen
dc.subjectaudiencesen
dc.titleReading Bronson from deep on the inside: An exploration of prisoners watching prison filmsen
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