| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice |
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Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice.
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| Contents |
Imaging punishment: an introduction / Charles Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat -- Redeeming the lost war: backlash films and the rise of the punitive state / Lary May -- Better Here than There: Prison Narratives in Reality Television / Aurora Wallace -- The Spectacle of Punishment and the "Melodramatic Imagination" in the Classical-Era Prison Film: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) and Brute Force (1947) / Kristen Whissel -- "Deserve Ain't Got Nothing to Do with It": The Deconstruction of Moral Justifications for Punishment through The Wire / Kristin Henning -- Rehabilitating Violence: White Masculinity and Harsh Punishment in 1990s Popular Culture / Daniel LaChance -- Scenes of Execution: Spectatorship, Political Responsibility, and State Killing in American Film / Austin Sarat, Madeline Chan, Maia Cole, Melissa Lang, Nicholas Schcolnik, Jasjaap Sidhu, and Nica Siegel -- The pleasures of punishment: complicity, spectatorship, and Abu Ghraib / Amy Adler -- Images of Injustice / Brandon L. Garrett |
| Summary |
The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil. Punishment in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions that undergird America's distinctive approach to punishment and analyzes punishment as a set of images, a spectacle of condemnation. It recognizes that the semiotics of punishment is all around us, not just in the architecture of the prison, or the speech made by a judge as she sends someone to the penal colony, but in both "high" and "popular" culture iconography--in novels, television, and film |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Punishment in motion pictures.
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Punishment on television.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History
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Television broadcasting -- United States.
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Mass media and criminal justice -- United States
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05.39 mass communication and mass media: other.
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71.65 criminality as a social problem.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Mass media and criminal justice
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Motion pictures
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Punishment in motion pictures
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Punishment on television
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Television broadcasting
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Strafe Motiv
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Todesstrafe Motiv
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Fernsehsendung
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Film
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Tv-sändning.
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Film -- historia.
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Straff -- i filmen.
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United States
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USA
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Verenigde Staten.
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Förenta staterna.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., 1952-2023
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Sarat, Austin.
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| ISBN |
9781479878680 |
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1479878685 |
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