Third Cinema, radical public spheres and an alternative to prison porn

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ID12878104
AuthorsLee Salter (Film Independent, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume16
Issue1
Pages27-45
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1740-8296 • E-ISSN: 2040-0918
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/macp_00013_1
OpenAlexW3016778935
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

This article considers how media production is framed by class experience, and how this framing mediates exclusion. Drawing on research on ‘poverty porn’ the article presents an analysis of how experimental exclusion is operationalized in media representations before moving the analysis to consider the framing of an additional exclusion that afflicts mainly working class people – that which comes with the status of prisoner and convict. Here, poverty porn becomes prison porn and we find a double exclusion. After noting the shortcomings of a number of prison documentaries in the framework of Third Cinema, the article finishes with a proposal, based on the production of a prison film made by the author, to more adequately represent such marginalized classes, finishing with a reflection on the perseverance of exclusion

Art · Criminology · Cultural Criminology · Framing (construction · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Poverty · Prison · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Law · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · South Asian Cinema and Culture

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