Prison Movies : Cinema Behind Bars /

Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Often considered an offshoot of the gangster film, the prison film precedes the gangster film and is in many ways its opposite. Rather than focusing on tragic figures heading for a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kehrwald, Kevin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Colección:Short Cuts
Temas:
Mass media and criminal justice > United States.
Prison films > United States > History and criticism.
Prisoners in popular culture > United States.
Prisons in mass media.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: After the Crime is Over
  • 1. Prison Films of Pre-Code Hollywood: Big Houses, Death Houses and Chain Gangs
  • 2. Women's Prison Films of the 1950s and Early 1960s
  • 3. Identity and Violence in Popular Prison Films from the 1960s to the 1990s
  • Afterword: Post-9/11 Prison Movies and the Era of Mass Incarceration
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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