Dark Fantasies: The Prisoner and the Futures of Imprisonment
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Dark Fantasies: The Prisoner and the Futures of Imprisonment |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2865 |
Book Title | The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture |
Authors | Harmes, Marcus (Author), Harmes, Meredith (Author) and Harmes, Barbara (Author) |
Editors | Harmes, Marcus, Harmes, Meredith and Harmes, Barbara |
Page Range | 499-510 |
Chapter Number | 30 |
Number of Pages | 12 |
Year | 2020 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of Publication | Switzerland |
ISBN | 9783030360597 |
9783030360580 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36059-7_30 |
Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-36059-7_30 |
Abstract | ITC’s 1967 series The Prisoner is an enduring classic, yet surprisingly little attention has been given to the program as being about incarceration, and this chapter analyzes the program in penological terms, as a sustained meditation on incarceration beyond the conventional cell block and as an important forerunner of the atypical forms of imprisonment seen most recently in Black Mirror. Yet in its own time, The Prisoner was surrounded by a constellation of other surreal prisons. These prison oddities came at a watershed moment in criminal justice. In Britain, the death penalty had just been abolished leaving questions for the Home Office, prisons, and society about what to do with prisons and prisoners. The Prisoner would hardly provide information about actual prisons, but it did speak to anxieties then felt about the future directions of incarceration; its surrealism suggested alarmingly prescient ideas on surveillance, civil death, and confinement. |
Keywords | The Prisoner (tv series); television drama; science fiction; prisons; popular culture |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470101. Communication studies |
360505. Screen media | |
440203. Courts and sentencing | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Open Access College |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q5qv5/dark-fantasies-the-prisoner-and-the-futures-of-imprisonment
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