Ogletree Jr., Charles J. <br/><br/>
Punishment in Popular Culture. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (317 pages) 
 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice Series ;  v.4 .
 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice Series .
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781479878680 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Punishment in motion pictures.<br/>Punishment on television.<br/>Motion pictures-United States-History.<br/>Television broadcasting-United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.P795 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/6556