Punishment in popular culture / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat. - 306 p : ill. - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice .

Imaging punishment: an introduction / Redeeming the lost war: backlash films and the rise of the punitive state / Better Here than There: Prison Narratives in Reality Television / 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) / "Deserve Ain't Got Nothing to Do with It": The Deconstruction of Moral Justifications for Punishment through The Wire / Rehabilitating Violence: White Masculinity and Harsh Punishment in 1990s Popular Culture / Scenes of Execution: Spectatorship, Political Responsibility, and State Killing in American Film / The pleasures of punishment: complicity, spectatorship, and Abu Ghraib / Images of Injustice / Charles Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat -- Lary May -- Aurora Wallace -- Kristen Whissel -- Kristin Henning -- Daniel LaChance -- Austin Sarat, Madeline Chan, Maia Cole, Melissa Lang, Nicholas Schcolnik, Jasjaap Sidhu, and Nica Siegel -- Amy Adler -- Brandon L. Garrett. HKBU library

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Punishment in motion pictures.
Punishment on television.
Motion pictures--History.--United States
Television broadcasting--United States.

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