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Punishment in Popular Culture /

"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 distin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sarat, Austin (Autor, Editor )
Otros Autores: Ogletree, Charles J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.