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Carceral fantasies : cinema and prison in early twentieth-century America / Alison Griffiths.
LIBRA HV8860 .G85 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffiths, Alison, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Film and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Recreation--United States.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--United States--Social conditions.
- Prison films.
- Motion picture audiences.
- Prisoners--Recreation.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Motion picture audiences--United States.
- Prison films--History and criticism.
- Imprisonment in motion pictures.
- Prisoners--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 440 pages ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The carceral imaginary
- Tableaux mort: execution, cinema, and carceral fantasies
- Prison on screen: the carceral aesthetic
- The carceral spectator
- Screens and the senses in prison
- The great unseen audience: Sing Sing Prison and motion pictures
- The carceral reformer
- A different story: recreation and cinema in women's prisons and reformatories
- Cinema and prison reform
- Conclusion: the prison museum and media use in the contemporary prison.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- ISBN:
- 9780231161060
- 0231161069
- OCLC:
- 930485939
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