Punishment in popular culture / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice.
Main Author: Sarat, Austin (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., 1952-2023 (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice.
Subjects:
Punishment in motion pictures.
Mass media and criminal justice > United States.
Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures.
Physical Description:ix, 306 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.