id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_rchgk2dq2jbkpnjltivd465cfu Charissa Crépault Mainstream Media and the F-Word: Documentary Coherence and the Exclusion of a Feminist Narrative in The Fifth Estate Coverage of the Ashley Smith Case 2017 22 .pdf application/pdf 11470 755 49 This article offers a narrative analysis of the two CBC Fifth Estate investigative documentaries about Ashley Smith ("Behind the Wall," 2010; "Out of Control," 2010) and juxtaposes the documentary narratives against claims made by feminist criminologists with respect to women's corrections. dominant medicalized conceptualizations of mental illness and mental health treatment to frame the Smith case, leaving questions about the gendered nature of her Estate references Smith's gender contribute to sensationalizing the case by upholding representations of hegemonic femininity and the notion that women who Smith case produced by The Fifth Estate against the claims made by feminist criminologists with respect to women's corrections. Fifth Estate documentaries align with neoliberal and post-feminist notions of individualism and gender neutrality that obscure the structural context in which prisoner mistreatment takes place. The Fifth Estate relies upon correctional discourses that situate Smith's continued selfinjurious behaviour as a key indicator of her mental illness, lack of self-esteem, and ./cache/work_rchgk2dq2jbkpnjltivd465cfu.pdf ./txt/work_rchgk2dq2jbkpnjltivd465cfu.txt