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Title Punishment in popular culture / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat
Published New York : NYU Press, ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations
Series The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice.
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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Subject Punishment in motion pictures.
Punishment on television.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History
Television broadcasting -- United States.
Mass media and criminal justice -- United States
05.39 mass communication and mass media: other.
71.65 criminality as a social problem.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Mass media and criminal justice
Motion pictures
Punishment in motion pictures
Punishment on television
Television broadcasting
Strafe Motiv
Todesstrafe Motiv
Fernsehsendung
Film
Tv-sändning.
Film -- historia.
Straff -- i filmen.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Förenta staterna.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., 1952-2023
Sarat, Austin.
ISBN 9781479878680
1479878685