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  title info:
    title: Crimesploitation
    sub title: crime, punishment, and pleasure on reality television
  name:
    name part: Kaplan, Paul
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: LaChance, Daniel
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 162 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised." Most of us have encountered this warning while watching television at some point. It is typically attached to a brand of reality crime television that Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance call "crimesploitation," spectacles designed to entertain mass audiences by exhibiting "real" criminal behavior and its consequences. This book examines their enduring popularity in American culture. Analyzing the structure and content of several popular crimesploitation shows, including Cops, Dog: The Bounty Hunter and To Catch a Predator, as well as newer examples like Making a Murderer and Don't F**K with Cats, Kaplan and LaChance highlight the troubling nature of the genre. Though it presents itself as ethical and righteous, its entertainment value hinges upon suffering. Viewers can imagine themselves as deviant and ungovernable like the criminals in the show, thereby escaping a law-abiding lifestyle. Alternatively, they can identify with law enforcement officials, exercising violence, control and "justice" on criminal others. Crimesploitation offers a sobering look at the depictions of criminals, policing and punishment in modern America.
  table of contents: Introduction : the disciplined and the delinquent -- Humilitainment, Inc. : policing the criminal on primetime -- Watching the night creatures : crimesploitation and boredom -- Cuffs of love : punishment and redemption in crimesploitation -- Middlebrow crimesploitation -- Epilogue : w(h)ither crimesploitation?
  note: Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: True crime television programs
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Reality television programs
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Crime on television
  subject:
    topic: Punishment on television
  classification: PN1992.8.T78 K37 2022
  classification: 791.45/6556
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cultural lives of law
  identifier: 9781503613683
  identifier: 1503613682
  identifier: 9781503631731
  identifier: 1503631737
  identifier: 9781503631748
  identifier: 2021062079
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 211230
    record change date: 20220923133409.9
    record identifier: in00004582905