Arresting Images: Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera

by Aaron Doyle

Book Overview

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 policing: the popular American 'reality-TV' series Cops; the televising of surveillance footage and home video of crime and policing; footage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802085040
• ISBN13: 9780802085047
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"