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Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Alison Griffiths
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Description for Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 472 pages, 120 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; APFN; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1383.
A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical 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, Alison Griffiths explores the unique experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated and the complex cultural roots of cinematic renderings of prison life. Griffiths considers a diverse mix of cinematic genres, from early actualities and reenactments of notorious executions to reformist exposes of the 1920s.She connects an early fascination with cinematic ... Read more
A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical 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, Alison Griffiths explores the unique experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated and the complex cultural roots of cinematic renderings of prison life. Griffiths considers a diverse mix of cinematic genres, from early actualities and reenactments of notorious executions to reformist exposes of the 1920s.She connects an early fascination with cinematic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231161060
SKU
V9780231161060
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About Alison Griffiths
Alison Griffiths is professor of film and media studies at Baruch College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her Columbia University Press books are Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (2008) and Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (2002).
Reviews for Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Alison Griffiths's examination of how movie exhibition came into prisons is truly groundbreaking. No one has studied the culture of movie-going behind bars in this fashion before. A unique and absolutely exciting work!
Dana Polan, author of Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film Carceral Fantasies is a complex and highly original book that attends ... Read more
Dana Polan, author of Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film Carceral Fantasies is a complex and highly original book that attends ... Read more