Chopper is another film that aims at relating in a biographical sense the prison life of an inmate called Chopper. Popular HBO series Oz is another media communication of the prison subculture. It shows the clear politics that goes on in between the walls of the prison. Ethics such as back stabbing, lying, manipulating, making alliances following the inmate code of ethics are shown as necessities to one's survival in the culture. The extent of the prison subculture sometimes extends over the walls of the prisons and controls the gang on the outside as well. Such is the main ideology of the culture. The idea of power and control over authorities and mainstream culture is predominant. Mass media such as film and television series raises the existence of the subculture and creates a disturbing awareness among the mainstream cultures. Oz is the closest series that attempts to expose the realities of prison life. Various aspects of the prison subculture such as homosexuality, violence, gang politics, racial discrimination and corruption are expressed for the masses to see. With film status the inmates become celebrities and the subculture attains a new level of recognition. People who identify with the signs, goals and performance theories present in that culture begin to communicate ideas of prison subculture the mainstream society from outside the
Chopper is another film that aims at relating in a biographical sense the prison life of an inmate called Chopper. Popular HBO series Oz is another media communication of the prison subculture. It shows the clear politics that goes on in between the walls of the prison. Ethics such as back stabbing, lying, manipulating, making alliances following the inmate code of ethics are shown as necessities to one's survival in the culture. The extent of the prison subculture sometimes extends over the walls of the prisons and controls the gang on the outside as well. Such is the main ideology of the culture. The idea of power and control over authorities and mainstream culture is predominant. Mass media such as film and television series raises the existence of the subculture and creates a disturbing awareness among the mainstream cultures. Oz is the closest series that attempts to expose the realities of prison life. Various aspects of the prison subculture such as homosexuality, violence, gang politics, racial discrimination and corruption are expressed for the masses to see. With film status the inmates become celebrities and the subculture attains a new level of recognition. People who identify with the signs, goals and performance theories present in that culture begin to communicate ideas of prison subculture the mainstream society from outside the