[ecrea] Call for papers for edited collection on media and punishment

Call for papers for edited collection on media, incarceration, prisons

Prisons, prisoners, and crime are attracting unprecedented levels of 
interest from both predictable sources (tabloid media) to more 
unexpected (such as the prison setting of /Paddington 2/).

Globally, but especially in the United Kingdom, the United States and 
Australia, the real life prison population is rising dramatically. The 
fictional presentations of prison, which may be prurient and 
sexploitative, high minded or fantastical, is matched by the barely 
factual and highly sensationalized prison of reality television. /Orange 
is the New Black /is only the latest example of the compulsion media of 
all types have to look inside the prison.

This proposed book is for an edited collection of international 
contributors. Its focus on the (real or imagined) spaces of the prison 
and prisoners and the stories told about prisons and justice in media 
both fictional and non-fictional media and perhaps more importantly in 
the uncertain space between both. Reality television, tabloid media, 
crime and horror films, soap opera and pornography are all possible 
areas of focus.

Possible themes, areas and productions include (but are not limited to)

Fantasy and comedy incarceration (eg /The Prisoner /and /The Avengers/, 
/Porridge, Get Smart, The Simpsons /and /Hogan’s Heroes/)

Wrongful imprisonment and escape from prison

The women in prison genre (eg /Yield to the Night, Turn the Key Softly/)

sexploitation and naziploitation

Reality television of the world’s toughest jails

Celebrity prisoners (eg Chopper Read, Conrad Black)

The prison soap (eg /Bad Girls/, /Cell Block H/)

Running prisons (eg /The Governor/, /Within these Walls/)

The prison of the future in science fiction or of the past in historical 
drama

Dark tourism

Selling private prisons: prison promotional texts and media

The prison camp (eg /Tenko/, /Colditz/)

Scientific experimentation in prisons (eg /A Clockwork Orange/, /Tales 
from the Hood, The Vanishing Man/)

*Timelines*

We would ask for chapter *abstracts of 300 words by June 15^th 2018*. 
The abstract should indicate the focus of the contribution, the 
approach/method the author/s is taking to the research question and 
tentatively the conclusions the chapter will be making.

We will be seeking abstracts which would provide the basis of chapters 
of 3000-6000 words needed by the end of 2018.

At present no contract is signed but we do have positive interest from a 
major international publisher for a full proposal.

Questions can be directed to (marcus.harmes /at/ usq.edu.au) 
<mailto:(marcus.harmes /at/ usq.edu.au)>

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