Book Description | The Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture will be an essential reference point, providing international coverage and thematic richness. The chapters examine the real and imagined spaces of the prison and, perhaps more importantly, dwell in the uncertain space between them. The modern fixation with 'seeing inside' prison from the outside has prompted a proliferation of media visions of incarceration, from high-minded and worthy to voyeuristic and unrealistic. In this handbook, the editors bring together a huge breadth of disparate issues including women in prison, the view from 'inside', prisons as a source of entertainment, the real worlds of prison, and issues of race and gender. The handbook will inform students and lecturers of media, film, popular culture, gender, and cultural studies, as well as scholars of criminology and justice. |
About the Author | Professor Hui Liu holds double Ph.D. degrees from both China and Germany. He served as the BMBF Junior Group Leader for Germany's Ministry of Education & Research at the Institute of Automation, Faculty of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, Germany, from 2015 to 2016., , He has published more than 50 international research papers in the fields of smart energy and green cities and holds 40 related patents as the first inventor. He has won many major research awards, including the Natural Science Research Award from the Ministry of Education of China in 2017 (second prize), the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award of China (first prize) in 2018, and the Scientific and Technology Award of the China Railway Society (first prize) in 2018. He currently serves as an associate editor of the journal Transportation Safety& Environment (Oxford University Press) and as a committee member for more than 20 international academic conferences. |