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050  4 HV8860|b.G85 2016 
082 04 365/.668|223 
100 1  Griffiths, Alison,|d1963-|eauthor. 
245 10 Carceral fantasies :|bcinema and prison in early twentieth
       -century America /|cAlison Griffiths. 
264  1 New York :|bColumbia University Press,|c[2016] 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    1 online resource. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Film and culture 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
504    Includes filmography. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
588 0  Print version record. 
650  0 Prisoners|xRecreation|zUnited States. 
650  0 Prisoners|zUnited States|xSocial conditions. 
650  0 Motion picture audiences|zUnited States. 
650  0 Prison films|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Imprisonment in motion pictures. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xPenology.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Imprisonment in motion pictures.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01903572
650  7 Motion picture audiences.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01027116 
650  7 Prison films.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01077028 
650  7 Prisoners|xRecreation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01077187 
650  7 Prisoners|xSocial conditions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01077200 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aGriffiths, Alison, 1963-|tCarceral 
       fantasies.|dNew York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
       |z9780231161060|w(DLC)  2015048081|w(OCoLC)930485939 
830  0 Film and culture. 
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