Griffiths Carceral Fantasies

Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54156-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

A groundbreaking contribution to the study of non-theatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope. Focusing on films shown before 1935, the book explores the experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffiths, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Carceral Imaginary
1. Tableaux Mort: Execution, Cinema, and Carceral Fantasies
2. Prison on Screen: The Carceral Aesthetic
Part II: The Carceral Spectator
3. Screens and the Senses in Prison
4. "The Great Unseen Audience": Sing Sing Prison and Motion Pictures
Part III: The Carceral Reformer
5. A Different Story: Recreation and Cinema in Women's Prisons and Reformatories
6. Cinema and Prison Reform
Conclusion: The Prison Museum and Media Use in the Contemporary Prison
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Griffiths is professor of film and media studies at Baruch College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her Columbia University Press books are Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (2008) and Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (2002).