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Punishment in Popular Culture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice SeriesPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781479878680
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Punishment in Popular CultureDDC classification:
  • 791.43/6556
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.P795
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Imaging Punishment: An Introduction -- PART I. THE POPULARITY OF PUNISHMENT -- 1. Redeeming the Lost War: Backlash Films and the Rise of the Punitive State -- 2. Better Here than There: Prison Narratives in Reality Television -- PART II. POPULAR CULTURE'S CRITIQUE OF PUNISHMENT -- 3. 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) -- 4. "Deserve Ain't Got Nothing to Do with It": The Deconstruction of Moral Justifications for Punishment through The Wire -- 5. Rehabilitating Violence: White Masculinity and Harsh Punishment in 1990s Popular Culture -- PART III. THE RECEPTION AND IMPACT OF PUNISHMENT IN POPULAR CULTURE -- 6. Scenes of Execution: Spectatorship, Political Responsibility, and State Killing in American Film -- 7. The Pleasures of Punishment: Complicity, Spectatorship, and Abu Ghraib -- 8. Images of Injustice -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Imaging Punishment: An Introduction -- PART I. THE POPULARITY OF PUNISHMENT -- 1. Redeeming the Lost War: Backlash Films and the Rise of the Punitive State -- 2. Better Here than There: Prison Narratives in Reality Television -- PART II. POPULAR CULTURE'S CRITIQUE OF PUNISHMENT -- 3. 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) -- 4. "Deserve Ain't Got Nothing to Do with It": The Deconstruction of Moral Justifications for Punishment through The Wire -- 5. Rehabilitating Violence: White Masculinity and Harsh Punishment in 1990s Popular Culture -- PART III. THE RECEPTION AND IMPACT OF PUNISHMENT IN POPULAR CULTURE -- 6. Scenes of Execution: Spectatorship, Political Responsibility, and State Killing in American Film -- 7. The Pleasures of Punishment: Complicity, Spectatorship, and Abu Ghraib -- 8. Images of Injustice -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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