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Author Griffiths, Alison, 1963- author.

Title Carceral fantasies : cinema and prison in early twentieth-century America / Alison Griffiths.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource.
Series Film and culture
Film and culture.
Note Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Contents Introduction -- 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.
Summary A groundbreaking contribution to the study of non-theatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema. Focusing on films shown in prisons before 1935, the book explores the unique experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated and the complex cultural roots of cinematic renderings of prison life. Considering a diverse mix of cinematic genres, from early actualities and reenactments of notorious executions to reformist exposés of the 19.
Subject Prisoners -- Recreation -- United States.
Prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions.
Motion picture audiences -- United States.
Prison films -- History and criticism.
Imprisonment in motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Imprisonment in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01903572
Motion picture audiences. (OCoLC)fst01027116
Prison films. (OCoLC)fst01077028
Prisoners -- Recreation. (OCoLC)fst01077187
Prisoners -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01077200
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Griffiths, Alison, 1963- Carceral fantasies. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] 9780231161060 (DLC) 2015048081 (OCoLC)930485939
ISBN 9780231541565 (electronic bk.)
0231541562 (electronic bk.)
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