{"id":2166,"date":"2025-12-16T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites-recherche.univ-rennes2.fr\/ace\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2166"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:58:26","slug":"journee-detudes-mediamerica","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/sites-recherche.univ-rennes2.fr\/ace\/evenement\/journee-detudes-mediamerica\/","title":{"rendered":"Journ\u00e9e d’\u00e9tudes M\u00e9diamerica \u2013 Representing Law and Order\u00a0: News Media and Law Enforcement in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

This symposium, organized as part of the M\u00e9diamerica seminar series on the news media in the United States, aims to examine the relationships between the media, representations of public order, and law enforcement agencies in American media culture. Since the mid-20th century, issues of crime, law enforcement, and public authority have occupied a central place in the media landscape, appearing in various formats ranging from print media and radio to documentaries and television news. These representations do not merely relay the activities of law enforcement agencies: they actively participate in defining the events, categories, and interpretive frameworks through which they are understood in the public sphere. The seminal work of Stuart Hall and his collaborators, notably in Policing the Crisis<\/em> (1978), has demonstrated how the media play a decisive role in shaping public debates on crime and law enforcement, helping to structure collective perceptions, analytical categories, and social reality as it is publicly understood.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, the symposium aims to examine the role of media infrastructures and recording mechanisms\u2014police radio, visual reporting, film documentaries, television shows, and audiovisual journalism\u2014in capturing, circulating, and narrating the interactions between the police, the state, and the public. An invited lecture by by prof. Jason Hill (University of Delaware) on the film Law and Order<\/em> (Frederick Wiseman, 1969) will serve as a starting point for a broader reflection on the media forms through which scenes of law enforcement become visible, audible, and interpretable.<\/p>\n

Bringing together researchers in American studies, media history, and visual culture, this conference aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on how news media shape representations of authority, social conflict, and the circulation of information in the North American context.<\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>Cette journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tudes, organis\u00e9e dans le cadre du s\u00e9minaire M\u00e9diamerica consacr\u00e9 aux m\u00e9dias d\u2019information aux \u00c9tats-Unis, propose d\u2019examiner les relations entre m\u00e9dias, repr\u00e9sentations de l\u2019ordre public et institutions polici\u00e8res dans la culture m\u00e9diatique am\u00e9ricaine. Depuis le milieu du XXe si\u00e8cle, les questions de criminalit\u00e9, de maintien de l\u2019ordre et d\u2019autorit\u00e9 publique occupent une place centrale dans l\u2019espace m\u00e9diatique, apparaissant dans des formats vari\u00e9s allant de la presse \u00e9crite et de la radio aux documentaires et aux journaux t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9s. Ces repr\u00e9sentations ne se contentent pas de relayer l\u2019activit\u00e9 des forces de l\u2019ordre : elles participent activement \u00e0 la d\u00e9finition des \u00e9v\u00e9nements, des cat\u00e9gories et des cadres d\u2019interpr\u00e9tation \u00e0 travers lesquels ils sont appr\u00e9hend\u00e9s dans l\u2019espace public. Les travaux fondateurs de Stuart Hall et de ses collaborateurs, notamment dans Policing the Crisis<\/em> (1978), ont montr\u00e9 combien les m\u00e9dias jouent un r\u00f4le d\u00e9terminant dans la constitution m\u00eame des d\u00e9bats publics autour de la criminalit\u00e9 et du maintien de l\u2019ordre, en contribuant \u00e0 structurer les perceptions collectives, les cat\u00e9gories d\u2019analyse et la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 sociale telle qu\u2019elle est publiquement comprise.<\/p>\n

Dans cette perspective, la journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tudes entend interroger le r\u00f4le des infrastructures m\u00e9diatiques et des dispositifs d\u2019enregistrement \u2014 radio polici\u00e8re, reportage visuel, documentaire filmique ou journalisme audiovisuel \u2014 dans la capture, la circulation et la mise en r\u00e9cit des interactions entre la police, l\u2019\u00c9tat et le public. Une communication invit\u00e9e par Prof. Jason Hill (University of Delaware) consacr\u00e9e au film Law and Order<\/em> (Frederick Wiseman, 1969) servira de point de d\u00e9part \u00e0 une r\u00e9flexion plus large sur les formes m\u00e9diatiques \u00e0 travers lesquelles les sc\u00e8nes de maintien de l\u2019ordre deviennent visibles, audibles et interpr\u00e9tables.<\/p>\n

R\u00e9unissant des chercheurs en \u00e9tudes am\u00e9ricaines, en histoire des m\u00e9dias et en culture visuelle, cette journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tudes vise \u00e0 favoriser un dialogue interdisciplinaire sur la mani\u00e8re dont les m\u00e9dias d\u2019information donnent forme aux repr\u00e9sentations de l\u2019autorit\u00e9, du conflit social et de la circulation de l\u2019information dans le contexte nord-am\u00e9ricain.<\/p>\n

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Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n

10h\u201410h15: Caf\u00e9, Introduction par l\u2019\u00e9quipe M\u00e9diamerica<\/p>\n

-10h15\u201411h15: Jason Hill (<\/strong>University of Delaware), \u201cDeputies: American Police Radio and the Deputization of the Photojournalist\u201d<\/p>\n

-Pause Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n

-11h30\u201412h: Ana\u00efs Le F\u00e8vre-Berthelot<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 Rennes 2), \u201cMunicipal Radio: From Helping the Police to Shaping the\u00a0Polis<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n

-12h\u201412h30: Emmanuelle Delano\u00eb-Brun<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle), \u201cSerializing law and order: the politics of popular cop shows\u201d<\/p>\n

-12h30\u201413h: Concluding Discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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