Carceral Fantasies - Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America

Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Griffiths, Griffiths Alison
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780231161060
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16106-0
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series; Film Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, ART / Film & Video, United States of America, USA, c 1910 to c 1919, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Penology and punishment, Prisons, Film: styles & genres, c 1900 to c 1909, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism