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Title Carceral fantasies : cinema and prison in early twentieth-century America / Alison Griffiths.
Author Griffiths, Alison, 1963- author.
Publisher New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 6  Sociology qYF1370 GRI  

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Description xix, 440 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
ISBN 9780231161060 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-411), filmography (pages 375-377) and index.
Contents 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.
Series Film and culture.
Library Class Sociology YF1370
Subject Prisoners -- Recreation -- United States.
Prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions.
Motion picture audiences -- United States.
Prison films -- History and criticism.
Imprisonment in motion pictures.

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